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

“So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

“Marcela: Hízome el cielo, según vosotros decís, hermosa, y de tal manera, que, sin ser poderosos a otra cosa, a que me…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“...your grace's words have been like manure spread on the barren ground of my dry and uncultivated 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

“Didn't i tell you they were only windmills? And someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“puédesele dar licencia para imprimirle. En Madrid,”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath…

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

“This is my friend Durandarte, flower and mirror of the true lovers and valiant knights of his time. He is held enchanted…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— 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

“It was a hard life, a life of poverty, of incessant struggle, of toil ill paid, of disappointment, but Cervantes carried within…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Bien podrá ello ser así, pero Dubitat Augustinus”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Your grace, come back, Señor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep !”

— 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

“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

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

— 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

“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

“The best sauce in the world is hunger, and as the poor are never without that, they always eat with a relish.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“At least, Sancho, I want, because it is necessary, I say I want you to see me naked and performing one or…

— 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

“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water." ~ Miguel de Cervantes…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra