Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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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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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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Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
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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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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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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 Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.
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There is no proverb that is not true.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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The proof of the pudding is the eating.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.