Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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It is good to live and learn.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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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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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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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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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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The proof of the pudding is the eating.
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Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.
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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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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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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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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.