Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“(...) and it will be easier, remember, to bend thy will to love one who adores thee, than to lead one to…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— 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

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

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

“The ability to reason the un-reason which has afflicted by reason saps my ability to reason, so that I complain with good…

— 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

“Believe me, fair lady, you may call yourself fortunate in having in this castle of yours sheltered my person, which is such…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The poor man is incapacitated from showing the virtue of generosity to anyone, though he may possess it in the highest degree;…

— 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

“Rocinante felt the desire to pleasure himself with the ladies, and as soon as he picked up their scent he abandoned his…

— 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

“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

“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

“Let's turn now to the citation of authors, found in other books and missing in yours. The solution to this is very…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“A good joke, that!" returned Don Quixote. "Books that have been printed with the king's licence, and with the approbation of those…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“what I wish to tell you now you must swear to keep secret until after my death.” “I swear,” Sancho responded. “I…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“I would have thee to know, Sancho, that it is the glory of knights-errant to go without eating for a month, and…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“You are a coward by nature, Sancho, said don Quixote, yet to prevent you from claiming I am obstinate and never do…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“…que hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

“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

“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

“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

“I am not in the habit', said Don Quixote, 'of despoiling those whom I vanquish, nor is it a custom of chivalry…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“It is a balsam," answered Don Quixote, "the receipt of which I have in my memory, with which one need have no…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“But what made him still more fortunate, as he said himself, was having a daughter of such exceeding beauty, rare intelligence, gracefulness,…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined…

— 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…

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“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

“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