Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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With life many things are remedied.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.
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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.