Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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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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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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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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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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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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Comparisons are odious.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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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.