Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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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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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
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For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
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Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
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Miracle me no miracles.