Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it....

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

That which costs little is less valued.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

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

All is not gold that glisters.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

As ill-luck would have it.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

All sorrows are less with bread.

There's no love lost between us.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

The proof is in the pudding.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.