Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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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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It is good to live and learn.
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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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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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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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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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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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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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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 have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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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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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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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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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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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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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.