Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Quotes

#1. Path of knight-errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour. I

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#2. There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

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#3. Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

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#4. All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

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#5. And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

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#6. The village to sell (saving your presence) four pigs, and between dues and cribbings they got out of me little less than the worth of them. As

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#7. He who has the good to his hand and chooses the bad, that the good he complains of may not come to him.

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#8. Halt! ill-born rabble, follow him not nor pursue him, or ye will have to reckon with me in battle!

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#9. Perceived a cart covered with royal flags coming along the road they were travelling; and persuaded that this must be some new adventure,

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#10. I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

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#11. Friend to friend no more draws near, and the jester's cane has become a spear

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#12. Heaven send us better times! There is nothing but plotting and counter-plotting, undermining and counter-mining in this world.

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#13. Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond

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#14. I wouldn't dare to put a pinpoint between a woman's yes and no.there wouldn't be room

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#15. Thou knowest that my voice is sweet, That is if thou dost hear; And I am moulded in a form Somewhat below the mean.

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#16. According to an ancient and common tradition in the kingdom of Great Britain, this king did not die, but was transformed into a raven by the art of enchantment and, in the course of time, he shall return to rule again and regain his kingdom and his scepter.

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#17. 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 ...

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#18. Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob.

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#19. In the shadow of feigned cripples and false wounds come the strong arms of thieves and very healthy drunkards.

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#20. And letting out thirty groans and sixty sighs and one hundred and twenty curses on the head of the person who'd brought him there, he hauled himself to his feet,

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#21. The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

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#22. Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

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#23. Sancho, just as you want people to believe what you have seen in the sky, I want you to believe what I saw in the Cave of Montesinos. And that is all I have to say.

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#24. It is by rugged paths like these they go That scale the heights of immortality, Unreached by those that falter here below.

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#25. Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

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#26. The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

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#27. Faint heart never won fair maiden

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#28. Men have to have friends even in hell.

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#29. An escape from penalty is better than petitioning the judges.

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#30. The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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#31. Never mind what some will say, for then thou wilt never have done. One may as soon tie up the winds, as the tongues of slanderers.

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#32. Secondly, thou must keep in view what thou art, striving to know thyself, the

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#33. A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

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#34. What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.

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#35. All we want now is to find out what king, Christian or pagan, is at war and has a beautiful daughter;

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#36. The sadness of the heart rises to the face, and in the eyes may be read the history of that which passes in the soul.

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#37. Front of them all came a wooden castle drawn by four wild men, all clad in ivy and hemp stained green, and looking so natural that they nearly terrified Sancho. On the front of the castle and on each of the

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#38. But I have heard it said," said Don Quixote, "that troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

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#39. The ability to reason the un-reason which has afflicted by reason saps my ability to reason, so that I complain with good reason of your infinite loveliness.

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#40. The proof of the pudding is the eating.

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#41. All I can say,' said Sancho, "is that I perceived a masculine scent about her which must have been because, with so much hard labor, she was sweaty and somewhat slimy." "It

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#42. Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

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#43. This is a fault incident to all those who presume to translate books of verse into another language. For, however much care they take and however much ability they employ, they can never equal the quality of the original.

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

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#45. Facts are the enemy of truth.

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#46. time has more power to undo and change things than the human will.

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#47. In the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.

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#48. With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable these days.

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#49. The landlord replied he had no chickens, for the kites had stolen them.

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#50. You should know, Sancho, that a man is not worth more than any other if he does not do more than any other.

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#51. Honesty's the best policy.

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#52. In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits.

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#53. Put the stores of the alforjas into requisition, and all three sitting down lovingly and sociably, they made a luncheon and a supper of it all in one; and when the sackcloth was removed,

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#54. 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

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#55. ( ... ) and it will be easier, remember, to bend thy will to love one who adores thee, than to lead one to love thee who abhors thee now.

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#56. The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away ...

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#57. The eyes those silent tongues of love.

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#58. Since then the romances of chivalry had been superseded by the flowering of literature that we know as the Spanish Golden Age, and by Cervantes's time nobody considered them to be a threat any more.

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#59. Countless were the hares ready skinned and the plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, numberless the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the branches that the air might keep them cool. Sancho counted more than sixty wine skins

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#60. Fair and softly goes far.

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#61. Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

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#62. I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

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#63. Poetry, gentle sir, is, as I take it, like a tender young maiden of supreme beauty, to array, bedeck, and adorn whom is the task of several other maidens,

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#64. What covers you discovers you.

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#65. There is no book so bad ... that it does not have something good in it.

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#66. All the world stand, unless all the world confess that in all the world there is no maiden fairer than the Empress of La Mancha, the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso.

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#67. It is the privilege and charm of beauty to win the heart and secure good-will,

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#68. And what hast thou gained by the government?" asked Ricote. "I have gained," said Sancho, "the knowledge that I am no good for governing,

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#69. By the Blessed Virgin ! Is it possible that your grace is so thickheaded and so short on brains that you cannot see that what I'm telling you is the absolute truth.

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#70. The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

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#71. Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?

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#72. Seated on his horse, resting in his stirrups and leaning on the end of his lance, filled with sad and troubled forebodings;

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#73. What intelligent things you say sometimes ! One would think you had studied.

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#74. He robbed him of a great deal of his natural force, and so do all those who try to turn books written in verse into another language, for, with all the pains they take and all the cleverness they show, they never can reach the level of the originals as they were first produced.

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#75. Dame Fortune once upon a day To me was bountiful and kind; But all things change; she changed her mind, And what she gave she took away. O Fortune, long I've sued to thee; The gifts thou gavest me restore, For, trust me, I would ask no more, Could 'was' become an 'is' for me.

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#76. I was born like everyone else, and a man must not live in dependence on anyone except God;

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#77. Could see you all strung by the gills, like sardines on a twig!

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#78. How is it possible that things so trivial and so easy to remedy can have the power to perplex and absorb an intelligence as mature as yours, and one so ready to demolish and pass over much greater difficulties?

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#79. All sorrows are less with bread.

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#80. After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.

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#81. All human efforts to communicate - even in the same language - are equally utopian, equally luminous with value, and equally worth the doing.

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#82. Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

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#83. He finally resolved to call the horse Rocinante.

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#84. Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

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#85. "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

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#86. What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

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#87. That is the natural disposition of the sex; to disdain those who adore them, and love those by whom they are abhorred.

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#88. The journey is better than the inn".

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#89. Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

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#90. What I can tell your grace is that it deals with truths, and they are truths so appealing and elegant that no lies can equal them.

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#91. By God, master," said Sancho, "the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I'll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it.

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#92. Buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. An olla

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#93. Vagabond knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance.

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

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#95. Trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.

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

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#97. This fierce basilisk, this ungrateful, cruel, supercilious wretch, will neither seek, serve, own, nor follow you in any shape whatever.

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#98. A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world! ...

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#99. Knight of the Ill-Favored Face.

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#100. 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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