Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Earned with the sweat of my brows.

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

God blew and they were scattered

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

“Yo sé quien soy...”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“In a village of La Mancha,”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“¡No milagro, milagro, sino industria, industria!”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

“...without intelligence, there can be no humour.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Quem não tenciona satisfazer não regateia condições no contratar.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Bien podrá ello ser así, pero Dubitat Augustinus”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“What intelligent things you say sometimes ! One would think you had studied.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“No hay memoria a quien el tiempo no acabe, ni dolor que muerte no le consuma.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“[W]omen are born with the obligation to obey their husbands even if they're fools.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The reason of the unreasonableness which against my reason is wrought, doth so weaken my reason, as with all reason I do…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the…

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Happy the age, happy the time, to which the ancients gave the name of golden, not because in that fortunate age the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Plunge, scoundrel, rogue, monster—for such I take thee to be—plunge, I say, into the mare magnum of their histories; and if thou…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Yo conozco, con el natural entendimiento que Dios me ha dado, que todo lo hermoso es amable; mas no alcanzo que, por…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Open thine arms and receive, too, thy son Don Quixote, who, if he comes vanquished by the arm of another, comes victor…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“But what distressed him greatly was not having another hermit there to confess him and to receive consolation from; and so he…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“El que me llama fiera y basilisco déjeme como cosa perjudicial y mala; el que me llama ingrata no me sirva; el…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“I do not think it is wise to force them to study one thing or another, although persuading them to do so…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The only thing that troubled him was the reflection that this kingdom was in the land of the blacks, and that the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Woman is made of fragile glass; but do not put her to the test to see if she will break, for that…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“At this point they came in sight of thirty forty windmills that there are on plain, and as soon as Don Quixote…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Lifting up his hand to her, he said, "Here, madam, take the hand, or rather, as I may say, the executioner of…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“As regards your government of yourself and your household, Sancho, my first piece of advice is to be clean and to cut…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“No hay libro tan malo [...] que no tenga algo bueno.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Don Quixote is so crazy that he is sure no author could have invented him”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra