Thou Keepest Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

— Miguel de Cervantes

He had a face like a blessing.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight,…

— 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

Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

— Miguel de Cervantes