Top 400 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

302. “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

303. “Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

304. “You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

305. “No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

306. “Many littles make a much.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

307. “Berganza, I’m not shocked that – since there’s good and bad in all of us – we get the hang of evil in no time.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

308. “Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

309. “Nor has his death the world deceiv’d than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv’d least he like a wise one dy’d.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

311. “Here, then, I say is what the student has to undergo; first of all poverty:.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

312. “We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

314. “Get the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

315. “Wit and humor belong to genius alone.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

316. “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

317. “The Panza is here,” said Sancho, before anyone could reply, “and Don Quixotissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duenissima, you may say what you willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any servissimus.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

318. “All is not gold that glisters.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

319. “There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

320. “Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

321. “Sir Knight of the Sorrowful Face, I cannot bear with patience some of the things your Grace says. They are enough to make me suspect that all you have told me about knighthood and winning kingdoms and empires, of bestowing islands and giving me other favors and honors according to the customs of chivalry must all be hot air and lies, and all a cock and bull story or cock and ball story or whatsoever you term it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

324. “As ill-luck would have it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

325. “I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

326. “Now, tell me which is the greater deed, raising a dead man or killing a giant?” “The answer is self-evident,” responded Don Quixote. “It is greater to raise a dead man.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

327. “For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

328. “When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

329. “A person dishonored is worst than dead.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

330. “There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

331. “Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

332. “Little said is soon amended.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

333. “Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

334. “Let every man look before he leaps.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

335. “Seek for good, but expect evil.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

336. “And thus, from too little sleep and too much reading, his brain dried up and he completely lost his judgment.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

337. “All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

338. “It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

339. “Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

340. “I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

341. “But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of the humble.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

342. “And so, having polished up his armor and made the morion over into a closed helmet, and having given himself and his horse a name, he naturally found but one thing lacking still: he must seek out a lady of whom he could become enamored; for a knight-errant without a lady-love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, a body without a soul.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

343. “It requires a long time to know anyone.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

344. “Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

345. “As soon as Don Quixote had read the inscription on the parchment he perceived clearly that it referred to the disenchantment of Dulcinea, and returning hearty thanks to heaven that he.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

346. “An escape from penalty is better than petitioning the judges.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

348. “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

349. “There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

350. “Friends, whoe’er ye be that are immured in that prison, forgive me that, to my misfortune and yours, I cannot deliver you from your misery;.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra