Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.