“Blessings on him, who invented sleep.”
Source: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha
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Famous Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
“Where one door shuts another opens.”
Source: Don Quixote
Source: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha
Source: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
“Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.”
Source: Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
“Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.”
Source: The Living Thoughts of Cervantes
“All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.”
“The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.”
Source: Don Quixote
“There is no love lost between us.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.”
Source: The Living Thoughts of Cervantes
“She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.”
Source: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff
“God who sends the wound sends the medicine.”
Source: Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote
Source: 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
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux
“Man appoints, and God disappoints.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
Source: Don Quixote
“Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.”
“I shall be as secret as the grave.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell
“It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...
“Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux
“The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.”
“Heaven's help is better than early rising.”
Source: Don Quixote
“He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.”
Source: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff
“Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)
“Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.”
“Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.”
“Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
“"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."”
Source: Don Quixote
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
Source: Don Quixote of La Mancha
“Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.”
Source: Don Quixote
“He preaches well that lives well”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
“True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha