Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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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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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.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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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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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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There are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls.
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The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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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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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from 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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
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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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Think before thou speakest.
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Give the devil his due.
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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.