Top 500 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

252. “When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

253. “Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

254. “No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

257. “Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

258. “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

259. “There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

260. “The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

262. “Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

263. “He who gives early gives twice.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

264. “The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

265. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

269. “Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

270. “Many littles make a much.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

271. “Delay always breeds danger.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

272. “But I have heard it said,” said Don Quixote, “that troubles take wing for the man who can sing.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

273. “So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language as well as he could; and all the while he rode so slowly and the sun mounted so rapidly and with such fervour that it was enough to melt his brains if he had any.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

274. “Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

275. “Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

276. “He who clipped us has kept the scissors.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

277. “Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

278. “Health and cheerfulness make beauty.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

280. “I was born like everyone else, and a man must not live in dependence on anyone except God;.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

282. “She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

283. “I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

284. “Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

285. “If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

286. “It is by rugged paths like these they go That scale the heights of immortality, Unreached by those that falter here below.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

287. “You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the ’versal world but what you can turn your hand into.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

288. “Everything disturbs an absent lover.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

289. “By God, master,” said Sancho, “the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I’ll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

290. “By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

291. “Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

292. “There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

293. “Senor Sancho Panza must know that we too have enchanters here that are well disposed to us, and tell us what goes on in the world, plainly and distinctly, without subterfuge or deception; and believe me, Sancho, that agile country lass was and is Dulcinea del Toboso, who is as much enchanted as the mother that bore her; and when we least expect it, we shall see her in her own proper form, and then Sancho will be disabused of the error he is under at present.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

294. “Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

295. “Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

296. “My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

297. “From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

298. “Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

299. “For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

300. “There is no proverb that is not true.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra