Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.
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Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.
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There's no love lost between us.
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
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All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.