Top 500 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

252. “This is a natural disposition of women,” said Don Quixote. “They disdain those who love them and love those who disdain them.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

256. “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

257. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

261. “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

262. “Necessity urges desperate measures.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

266. “Delay always breeds danger.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

268. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

270. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

276. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

279. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

284. “Health and cheerfulness make beauty.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

285. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

288. “Many littles make a much.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

289. “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

290. “Every production must resemble its author.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

292. “I believe there’s no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

295. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

297. “All is not gold that glisters.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

298. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

300. “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