Quotes About Cervantes

#1. He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel De Cervantes

#2. Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Miguel De Cervantes

#4. When a rich man is hurt, his wail goeth heavens high. (Sancho Panza)

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#5. 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

#6. But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all which he bore with patience rather than sever the ribbons of his helmet.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#7. I come to a world of iron to make a world of gold.

Cervantes

#8. The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

Miguel De Cervantes

#9. When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Miguel De Cervantes

#10. 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.

Miguel De Cervantes

#11. All is not gold that glisters.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#15. Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

Miguel De Cervantes

#16. Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Miguel De Cervantes

#19. Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

Miguel De Cervantes

#20. Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Miguel De Cervantes

#22. 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.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#23. She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#24. A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

Miguel De Cervantes

#25. 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.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#26. Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

Jean Douchet

#27. 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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#28. God helps everyone with what is his own.

Miguel De Cervantes

#29. At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a couple of hundred years, most of those possibilities were abandoned in favor of a text that efficiently transmitted sentiments.

Teju Cole

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#31. The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

Miguel De Cervantes

#32. the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.

Aubrey F.G. Bell

#33. For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#34. 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

#35. 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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#36. All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

Miguel De Cervantes

#37. Dine on little, and sup on less.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#39. Now, tell me which is the greater deed, raising a dead man or killing a giant?" "The answer is self-evident," responded Don Quixote. "It is greater to raise a dead man.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#40. I betook myself to these solitudes, resolved to end here the life I hated as if it were my mortal enemy. But fate would not rid me of it, contenting itself with robbing me of my reason,

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#41. Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

Miguel De Cervantes

#42. Gaby wasn't having much luck with cats lately. The stray from yesterday had left her with red welts and a bad dream, and Lemon had just tried to eat her hair.

Angela Cervantes

#43. Everything I have done, am doing, and shall do follows the dictates of reason and the laws of chivalry,

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#44. There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#46. There was no more beautiful creature in the whole world

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#48. A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Miguel De Cervantes

#49. 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.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#51. That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel De Cervantes

#52. I have always heard it said, Sancho, that to do good to boors is to throw water into the sea.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel De Cervantes

#54. Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

Miguel De Cervantes

#55. Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.

Miguel De Cervantes

#56. Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.

Stephen Leacock

#57. Ye love-smitten host, know that to Dulcinea only I am dough and sugar-paste, flint to all others; for her I am honey, for you aloes. For

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#58. He who sings scares away his woes.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#59. In spite of these three obstacles, Menard's fragmentary _Quixote_ is more subtle than Cervantes'.

Jorge Luis Borges

#60. Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Miguel De Cervantes

#61. Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Miguel De Cervantes

#62. The road is always better than the inn.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#64. for a knight-errant without love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, or a body without a soul.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#65. When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .

Miguel De Cervantes

#66. I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

Miguel De Cervantes

#67. All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

Miguel De Cervantes

#68. Too much sanity may be madness.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#71. When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

Miguel De Cervantes

#72. A man prepared has half fought the battle.

Miguel De Cervantes

#73. Hear me now, o thou bleak and unbearable world
Thou art base and debauched as can be.
And a knight with his banners all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#74. Pray look better, Sir ... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Lorna Dee Cervantes

#76. It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Miguel De Cervantes

#77. When a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel De Cervantes

#79. A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#81. 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.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#82. 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 ...

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#83. Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

Miguel De Cervantes

#84. When one door is shut, another opens.

Miguel De Cervantes

#85. "He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

Miguel De Cervantes

#86. Your Grace is more fit to be a preacher than a knight-errant," said Sancho. "Knights-errant

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#87. "From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

Miguel De Cervantes

#88. Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#89. Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Miguel De Cervantes

#90. Love is invisible, and comes in and goes out as he likes, without anyone calling him to account for what he does.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#93. 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,

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#94. Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Miguel De Cervantes

#95. Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in the fair characters they maintain.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#96. Another thing to strive for: reading your history should move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention, not give the serious reason to scorn it, and allow the prudent to praise it.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#98. He who's never loved cannot be good.

Miguel De Cervantes

#99. Didn't i tell you they were only windmills? And someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#100. My honor is dearer to me than my life.

Miguel De Cervantes