Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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.

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.

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

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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

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

With life many things are remedied.

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

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

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

He who's never loved cannot be good.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

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

Little said is soon amended.

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

A closed mouth catches no flies.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

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

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

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

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.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

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

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

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

Comparisons are odious.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

He who reforms, God assists.

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

The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

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.

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

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

The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

The little birds have God for their caterer.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

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