Inspirational Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Thank you for nothing.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

— Miguel de Cervantes

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Where one door shuts another opens.

— Miguel de Cervantes

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

— Miguel de Cervantes

As ill-luck would have it.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

— Miguel de Cervantes

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

— Miguel de Cervantes

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

— Miguel de Cervantes

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”

— Miguel de Cervantes

In the night all cats are gray.

— Miguel de Cervantes

With life many things are remedied.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Dine on little, and sup on less.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Necessity urges desperate measures.

— Miguel de Cervantes

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Every production must resemble its author.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Every dog has his day.

— Miguel de Cervantes

All is not gold that glisters.

— Miguel de Cervantes

He that gives quickly gives twice.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Blessings on him, who invented sleep.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I shall be as secret as the grave.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Little said is soon amended.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The wicked are always ungrateful.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

— Miguel de Cervantes

When one door is shut, another opens.

— Miguel de Cervantes