Cervantes Quotes

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

Regret is an uneven hand, a rough palm at the cheek — tender and calloused.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

He preaches well that lives well

Honesty's the best policy.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Until death it is all life.

Delay always heeds danger.

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

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.

Think before thou speakest.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

In the night all cats are gray.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

All is not gold that glisters.

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

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

A good name is better than bags of gold.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

All will come out in the washing.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

As ill-luck would have it.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.