“Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.”
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Famous Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Source: Don Quixote
“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”
Source: The Living Thoughts of Cervantes
“Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux
“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
Source: Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
“Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux
“Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux
“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha
“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”
Source: Don Quixote
“I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.”
Source: Don Quixote
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...
Source: Don Quixote
Source: 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
“Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.”
“The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.”
Source: Don Quixote
Source: Don Quixote
“When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Source: Don Quixote
“Every man is the son of his own works.”
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
“A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
Source: Don Quixote
“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
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
“Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell
“Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.”
“Virtue is the truest nobility.”
Source: THE HISTORY Of the RENOWNED Don QUIXOTE De la MANCHA.