"The most perceptive character in a play is……" — Miguel de Cervantes
"The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton."
—
Miguel de Cervantes
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
314 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes has 314 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
-
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
-
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as…
-
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any…
-
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the…
-
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars;…
-
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
-
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
-
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses…
-
A closed mouth catches no flies.
-
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
-
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
See all 314 quotes by Miguel de Cervantes »
More Cannot Possibly Quotes
This quote is filed under Cannot Possibly Quotes,
one of 93 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that…
— Douglas Adams
-
Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
— Yasser Arafat
-
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made…
— Oscar Wilde
-
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
— Oscar Wilde
-
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
-
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we…
— Edmund Burke
-
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
-
One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must…
— Rajneesh
-
Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody;…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
-
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
-
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me,…
— Richard Avedon
-
Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.
— Winston Churchill
See all 93 Cannot Possibly Quotes »