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…

— 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…

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

Great people create great acts of kindness.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a…

— Miguel de Cervantes

One who has not only the four Ss, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet. as for…

— Miguel De Cervantes

El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

— Miguel de Cervantes

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

— Miguel de Cervantes

He who sings frightens away his ills.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Every man is the son of his own works.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am…

— Miguel de Cervantes