Miguel De Cervantes Quotes & Sayings

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman. — Miguel De Cervantes

Pray look better, Sir ... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. — Miguel De Cervantes

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others. — Miguel De Cervantes

The man who fights for his ideals is alive. — Miguel De Cervantes

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. — Miguel De Cervantes

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God. — Miguel De Cervantes

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up. — Miguel De Cervantes

Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you. — Miguel De Cervantes

Delay always breeds danger. — Miguel De Cervantes

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. — Miguel De Cervantes

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. — Miguel De Cervantes

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar. — Miguel De Cervantes

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness. — Miguel De Cervantes

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity. — Miguel De Cervantes

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. — Miguel De Cervantes

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. — Miguel De Cervantes

Can we ever have too much of a good thing? — Miguel De Cervantes

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. — Miguel De Cervantes

God who gives the wound gives the salve. — Miguel De Cervantes

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep. — Miguel De Cervantes

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty. — Miguel De Cervantes

I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely
to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections. — Miguel De Cervantes

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and the old sheep. — Miguel De Cervantes

Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards. — Miguel De Cervantes

We are all as God made us and frequently much worse. — Miguel De Cervantes

Other men's pains are easily borne. — Miguel De Cervantes

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker — Miguel De Cervantes

One swallow alone does not make a summer. — Miguel De Cervantes

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do. — Miguel De Cervantes

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. — Miguel De Cervantes

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. — Miguel De Cervantes

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

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay. — Miguel De Cervantes

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses. — Miguel De Cervantes

He who sings frightens away his ills. — Miguel De Cervantes

Wit and humor belong to genius alone. — Miguel De Cervantes

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. — Miguel De Cervantes

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. — Miguel De Cervantes

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy. — Miguel De Cervantes

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce. — Miguel De Cervantes

No man is more than another unless he does more than another. — Miguel De Cervantes

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. — Miguel De Cervantes

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. — Miguel De Cervantes

I have other fish to fry. — Miguel De Cervantes

Everything disturbs an absent lover. — Miguel De Cervantes

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm. — Miguel De Cervantes

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning. — Miguel De Cervantes

Dine on little, and sup on less. — Miguel De Cervantes

The ass bears the load, but not the overload. — Miguel De Cervantes

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. — Miguel De Cervantes

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. — Miguel De Cervantes

Every one in his own house and God in all of them. — Miguel De Cervantes

Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. — Miguel De Cervantes

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. — Miguel De Cervantes

Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool. — Miguel De Cervantes

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. — Miguel De Cervantes

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. — Miguel De Cervantes

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish. — Miguel De Cervantes

Let us forget and forgive injuries. — Miguel De Cervantes

Man appoints, and God disappoints. — Miguel De Cervantes

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes. — Miguel De Cervantes

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. — Miguel De Cervantes

Many littles make a much. — Miguel De Cervantes

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough. — Miguel De Cervantes

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are. — Miguel De Cervantes

He preaches well that lives well. — Miguel De Cervantes

Heaven's help is better than early rising. — Miguel De Cervantes

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future. — Miguel De Cervantes

Great people create great acts of kindness. — Miguel De Cervantes

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. — Miguel De Cervantes

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. — Miguel De Cervantes

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. — Miguel De Cervantes

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant. — Miguel De Cervantes

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it. — Miguel De Cervantes

Believe there are no limits but the sky. — Miguel De Cervantes

With life many things are remedied. — Miguel De Cervantes

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason. — Miguel De Cervantes

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer. — Miguel De Cervantes

Little said is soon amended. — Miguel De Cervantes

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. — Miguel De Cervantes

He who's never loved cannot be good. — Miguel De Cervantes

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd. — Miguel De Cervantes

We must not stand upon trifles. — Miguel De Cervantes

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun. — Miguel De Cervantes

We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain. — 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

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire. — Miguel De Cervantes

Treason pleases, but not the traitor. — Miguel De Cervantes

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

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens. — Miguel De Cervantes

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone. — Miguel De Cervantes

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity. — Miguel De Cervantes

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. — Miguel De Cervantes

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. — Miguel De Cervantes

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise. — Miguel De Cervantes

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind. — Miguel De Cervantes

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

There is no proverb that is not true. — Miguel De Cervantes

Every dog has his day. — Miguel De Cervantes

All is not gold that glisters. — Miguel De Cervantes