Miguel de Cervantes Quotes


"The eyes those silent tongues of love."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Love, Eyes)

"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: War, Fortune, Nothing)

"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Despair, Folly, Man, World)

"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Humor)

"There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Old, World)

"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Character, Comedy, Fool)

"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Cats, Play)

"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Wealth, Possession)

"Thou hast seen nothing yet."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Nothing)

"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Recreation)

"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Love, Nature, Women)

"That which costs little is less valued."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Art, Company)

"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Experience)

"Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Giants)

"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Love, Absence)

"The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Knowledge, Vanity, Will)

"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Cowardice, Lies, Valor)

"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Art, Rome)

"When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Law, Motive, Pity)

"Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Time, Death, Will)

"Virtue is the truest nobility."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Virtue, Nobility)

"I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Experience, Mother, Maxims)

"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, Oil, Water, Will)

"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Trout)

"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, Oil, Water, Will)

"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, May, Oil, Water)

"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Life, Madness, May, Sanity)

"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Fear, Action, Hope, Reason)

"To be prepared is half the victory."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Victory)

"Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Comfort)

"'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Man, Talking)

"Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Sheep)

"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Time, Man)

"A closed mouth catches no flies."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Flies)

"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Promise)

"God bears with the wicked, but not forever."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: God)

"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Judgment, Reading)

"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Victory)

"For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Time, Hunger, Learning, Man, Weakness)

"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Fear, Eyes)

"Fair and softly goes far."
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"Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Actions, Deeds, Sons)

"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Heaven, Man)

"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Experience)

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Mother, Goal, Diligence, Fortune, Idleness, Man, Wishes)

"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Design, Danger, Delay, Ruin)

"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."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: May, Reason, Terror, Weight)

"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Music, Soul)

"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Public, Sin, World)

"One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves."
- Miguel De Cervantes
"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Cowardice, Lies, Valor)

"Every man is the son of his own works."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Son, Man)

"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Laziness)

"He had a face like a blessing."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"A person dishonored is worst than dead."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Children, Fathers, Mothers, Ugly)

"No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Power)

"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Virtue, Modesty, Poets, World)

"Man appoints, and God disappoints."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: God, Man)

"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Life, Honor, Liberty, Man)

"Jests that give pains are no jests."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Sorrow)

"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Discipline, Praise)

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Order)

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Courage, Man, Stars, Will, World)

"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Conversation, Right, Wrong)

"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Friend, Courage, Wealth)

"He preaches well that lives well."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Love, War, Policy)