Top 400 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

253. “Health and cheerfulness make beauty.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

256. “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

257. “Delay always breeds danger.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

258. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

262. “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

263. “I’ve always heard the old folks say that if you don’t know how to enjoy good luck when it comes, you shouldn’t complain if it passes you by.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

266. “Everything disturbs an absent lover.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

268. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

270. “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

271. “He who gives early gives twice.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

272. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

274. “Does the devil possess you? You’re leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

275. “The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

277. “Let the worst come to the worst.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

278. “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

279. “The ability to reason the un-reason which has afflicted by reason saps my ability to reason, so that I complain with good reason of your infinite loveliness.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

280. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

283. “When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

284. “When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

285. “There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

286. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

288. “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

289. “Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

292. “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

293. “Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

294. “It was a hard life, a life of poverty, of incessant struggle, of toil ill paid, of disappointment, but Cervantes carried within himself the antidote to all these evils.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

295. “No man is more than another unless he does more than another.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

296. “Take care, Sancho,” said Samson; “honours change manners, and perhaps when you find yourself a governor you won’t know the mother that bore you.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

297. “A little in one’s own pocket is better than much in another man’s purse.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

298. “Having cleaned his armor and made a full helmet out of a simple headpiece, and having given a name to his horse and decided on one for himself, he realized that the only thing left for him to do was to find a lady to love; for the knight errant without a lady-love was a tree without leaves or fruit, a body without a soul.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

299. “It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

300. “I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra