Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
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When you are at Rome, do as you see.
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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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A stout heart breaks bad luck.
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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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God helps everyone with what is his own.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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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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One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
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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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Every dog has his day.