Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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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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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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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
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It is good to live and learn.
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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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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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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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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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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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The proof of the pudding is the eating.
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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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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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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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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.