Top 400 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

204. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

206. “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

207. “He had a face like a blessing.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

208. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

211. “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

212. “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

213. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

215. “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

216. “Necessity urges desperate measures.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

221. “Every production must resemble its author.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

222. “Think before thou speakest.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

223. “I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

225. “Man have to have friends even in hell.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

233. “Many were the offenses to be undone, the wrongs to be rectified, the grievances to be redressed, the abuses to be corrected and the debts to be satisfied.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

235. “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

236. “I have never died all my life.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

237. “Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

238. “Secondly, thou must keep in view what thou art, striving to know thyself, the.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

239. “Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

240. “Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

241. “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

242. “Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

243. “The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic – adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

244. “There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

245. “The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

246. “Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and the old sheep.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

249. “Do you mean to say that the story is finished?” said Don Quixote. “As finished as my mother,” said Sancho.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

250. “Didn’t i tell you they were only windmills? And someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra