Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
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For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Many littles make a much.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.