Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Fair and softly goes far.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
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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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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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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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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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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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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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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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As ill-luck would have it.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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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 other fish to fry.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.