Turns Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

8 Turns quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

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Cervantes brings his timeless storytelling flair to the idea of turning points in this modest collection. The eight quotes capture his blend of satire and humanity, offering a succinct taste of the author’s perspective on life’s shifts.

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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a…

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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn…

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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice,…

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I'll turn over a new leaf.

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[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

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

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He had a face like a blessing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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Great people create great acts of kindness.

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One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones…

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

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