Top 400 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “There’s no love lost between us.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

152. “Comparisons are odious.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

153. “All women are good – good for nothing, or good for something.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

154. “It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

155. “Give the devil his due.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

156. “Well, now there’s a remedy for everything except death.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

157. “But do not give it to a lawyer’s clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

158. “The ass bears the load, but not the overload.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

159. “Don’t put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

160. “Dine on little, and sup on less.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

161. “Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

162. “The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

163. “Soul of fibre and heart of oak.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

164. “Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

165. “It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

167. “Get out of harms way.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

168. “Great expectations are better than a poor possession.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

169. “One swallow alone does not make a summer.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

170. “My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

171. “Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

172. “Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

173. “Every man is the son of his own works.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

174. “That which costs little is less valued.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

176. “History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

177. “The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

178. “Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

179. “Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

180. “Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

181. “It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

182. “The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

183. “A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

184. “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.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

185. “Laughter distances us from that which is ugly and therefore potentially distressing, and indeed enables us to obtain paradoxical pleasure and therapeutic benefit from it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

186. “A stout heart breaks bad luck.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

187. “God helps everyone with what is his own.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

188. “The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

189. “They must needs go whom the Devil drives.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

190. “How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

191. “What is bought is cheaper than a gift.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

192. “Let us forget and forgive injuries.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

193. “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.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

194. “A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

195. “Miracle me no miracles.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

196. “Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

197. “Knight of the Ill-Favored Face.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

198. “My honor is dearer to me than my life.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

199. “The little birds have God for their caterer.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

200. “To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there’s more reason to fear than to hope.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra