Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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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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There's no love lost between us.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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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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A stout heart breaks bad luck.
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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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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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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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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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Give the devil his due.
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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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All sorrows are less with bread.
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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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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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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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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
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One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.