Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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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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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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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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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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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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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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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Think before thou speakest.
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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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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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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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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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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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The wicked are always ungrateful.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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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.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.