Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Give the devil his due.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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A stout heart breaks bad luck.
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When you are at Rome, do as you see.
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The wicked are always ungrateful.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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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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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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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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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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History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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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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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.