Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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All is not gold that glisters.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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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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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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Every dog has his day.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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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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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
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God helps everyone with what is his own.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
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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.