Quotes by
Miguel Cervantes |
1547-1616 , Spanish writer
He is known for his novel Don Quixote, a work considered as the first modern novel (published in two parts in 1605 and 1615). | 25 quotes | 559 visits |
Quotations
| • | Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. 3 |
| • | Absence, that common cure of love. 3 |
| • | I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to villains is to pour water into the sea. 2 |
| • | I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. 2 |
| • | Can we ever have too much of a good thing? 2 |
| • | There is nothing more stimulating than giving orders and being obeyed. 2 |
| • | Facts are the enemy of truth. 1 |
| • | There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. 1 |
| • | Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot, it's the pot that will break every time. 1 |
| • | Hunger is the best sauce in the world. 1 |
| • | One has to have friends, even in hell. 1 |
| • | The eyes, those silent tongues of love. 1 |
| • | In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. |
| • | Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. |
| • | God who sends the wound sends the medicine. |
| • | The wicked are always ungrateful. |
| • | Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. |
| • | All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. |
| • | A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity. |
| • | Seek for good, but expect evil. |
| • | Where there's music there can be no evil. |
| • | The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. |
| • | Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine. |
| • | The road to the inn is much better than the stay. |
| • | We are the sons of our actions. |
