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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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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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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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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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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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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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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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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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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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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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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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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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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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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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.