Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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

    Book   Poet   Turns  
    "Don Quixote".
  • When you are at Rome, do as you see.

    Rome  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs, and others which occur in Don Quixote; with a aliteral English translation, notes, and an introduction by Ulick Ralph Burke”, p.37
  • Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

    Smell   Garlic   Onions  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1954). “Don Quixote”, London ; Montreal : Penguin Books
  • The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.

  • A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

    Men   Pockets   Littles  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.56
  • Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

    Doors   Fortune   Remedy  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.83, Wordsworth Editions
  • God who gives the wound gives the salve.

    God   Giving   Wounds  
    Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.310, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

    Fighting   Men   Evil  
  • The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.415
  • A good name is better than bags of gold.

    Names   Gold   Bags  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.508
  • Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

    Honesty   Heart   Hands  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions
  • And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

    Glowing   Brain   Sun  
  • God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

    Medicine   Nurse   Wounds  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.17
  • It takes all sorts (to make a world

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Lesley Lipson (1998). “Exemplary Stories”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA
  • A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

    Men   Honor  
    Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (2011). “Don Quixote”, p.281, Penguin
  • Other men's pains are easily borne.

    Pain   Men  
  • Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

    Food   Looks   Cheesecake  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1818). “Don Quixote de la Mancha,3”, p.149
  • There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

    Men   Doubt   Despair  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff”, p.384
  • Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

    Funny   Death   Dying  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.414, Wordsworth Editions
  • Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.407, Wordsworth Editions
  • Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

    Freedom   Men   Hands  
  • I'll turn over a new leaf.

    Leafs   Turns  
    MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.117
  • The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

    Character   People   Fool  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2013). “Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.”, p.437, Alejandro's Libros
  • Blessings on him, who invented sleep.

    Sleep   Blessing  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1852). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha”
  • 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 double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.

    Sex   Broken   Promise  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1833). “The history and adventures of the renowned don Quixote: from the Span., by T. Smollett. To which is prefixed a memoir of the author, by T. Roscoe. Illustr. by G. Cruikshank”, p.155
  • Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.586, Wordsworth Editions
  • She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

    Desire   Trying   Want  
  • When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

    Art   Rome   Political  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.656, Wordsworth Editions
  • Love not what you are but only what you may become.

    Love   Vision   May  
  • One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

    Art   Painting   Painter  
    "The Portable Cervantes".
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