Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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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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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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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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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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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.