Top 500 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Necessity urges desperate measures.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

252. “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

253. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

256. “He who gives early gives twice.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

259. “Here,” said Don Quixote when he saw it, “we can, brother Sancho Panza, plunge our hands all the way up to the elbows into this thing they call adventures.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

264. “Every production must resemble its author.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

265. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

267. “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

268. “Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts heaven gave to men; the treasures under the earth and beneath the sea cannot compare to it; for freedom, as well as for honor, one can and should risk one’s life, while captivity, on the other hand, is the greatest evil that can befall men.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

272. “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

273. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

275. “Delay always breeds danger.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

280. “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

281. “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

282. “I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

283. “Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

284. “Health and cheerfulness make beauty.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

285. “I’ll turn over a new leaf.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

286. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

289. “Many littles make a much.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

292. “The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

294. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

296. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

298. “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

299. “Do we know exactly who we are? The more urgently we quest for our authentic selves, the more they tend to recede. The Knight and Sancho, as the great work closes, know exactly who they are, not so much by their adventures as through their marvelous conversations, be they quarrels or exchanges of insights.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

300. “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