Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?
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In hell there is no retention.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.