Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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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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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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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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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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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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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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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.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.