Top 500 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “My honor is dearer to me than my life.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

202. “A stout heart breaks bad luck.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

204. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

207. “Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

208. “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

209. “I shall be as secret as the grave.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

210. “Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

211. “He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

213. “I have never died all my life.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

215. “The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

217. “Miracle me no miracles.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

219. “Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

221. “Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

222. “Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

225. “Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

227. “Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

228. “I only understand that while I’m sleeping I have no fear, or hope, or trouble, or glory; blessed be whoever invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thought...”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

229. “Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God’s blessing into the warm sun.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

230. “He had a face like a blessing.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

231. “There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

232. “My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

233. “True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

234. “When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

235. “Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store – He frightened it to the core – Yet somehow, by Fate’s plan, Though he’d lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

236. “She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

237. “He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

238. “Think before thou speakest.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

239. “Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

240. “He who gives early gives twice.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

241. “In the night all cats are gray.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

242. “Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

243. “Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

244. “A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

245. “You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

246. “Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

247. “After he in his memory and imagination had made up, struck out, and discarded many names, now adding to and now subtracting from the list, he finally hit upon “Rocinante,” a name that impressed him as being sonorous and at the same time indicative of what the steed had been when it was but a hack, whereas now it was nothing other than the first and foremost of all the hacks in the world.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

248. “A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

249. “Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

250. “Spare your breath to cool your porridge.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra