Top 500 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Blessings on him, who invented sleep.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

152. “There’s no love lost between us.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

153. “A shy face is better than a forward heart.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

154. “Can we ever have too much of a good thing?”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

155. “Comparisons are odious.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

156. “Don Quixote did not sleep at all that night but thought of his lady Dulcinea, in order to conform to what he had read in his books of knights spending many sleepless nights in groves and meadows, turning all their thoughts to memories of their ladies.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

157. “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

158. “Give the devil his due.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

160. “Never meddle with play-actors, for they’re a favoured race.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

161. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

169. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

172. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

174. “That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

179. “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

180. “Get out of harms way.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

182. “Let us forget and forgive injuries.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

184. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

186. “A good joke, that!” returned Don Quixote. “Books that have been printed with the king’s licence, and with the approbation of those to whom they have been submitted, and read with universal delight, and extolled by great and small, rich and poor, learned and ignorant, gentle and simple, in a word by people of every sort, of whatever rank or condition they may be – that these should be lies!”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

187. “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

188. “This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair’s breadth from the truth in the telling of it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

189. “I’m a peaceful, mild, and quiet man, and I know how to conceal any insult because I have a wife and children to support and care for.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

196. “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

197. “To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

200. “The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra