Miguel De Cervantes Quotes

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

The absent feel and fear every ill.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

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

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

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

God helps everyone with what is his own.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

The journey is better than the inn".

Let the worst come to the worst.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.

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

At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.

For hope is always born at the same time as love.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

We must not stand upon trifles.

Tomorrow will be a new day.

Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

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

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

They must needs go whom the Devil drives.

When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.

Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Until death it is all life

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.

The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.

Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.

I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings!

I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow

...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads

He who sings scares away his woes.

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

I do not insist, " answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.