Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

"Brother, this is not a day on which hunger is to have any sway, thanks to the rich Camacho; get down and look about for a ladle and skim off a hen or two, and much good may they do you." "I don't see one," said Sancho. "Wait a bit," said the cook; "sinner that I am! how particular and bashful you are!" and so saying, he seized a bucket and plunging it into one of the half jars took up three hens and a couple of geese, and said to Sancho, "Fall to, friend, and take the edge off your appetite with these skimmings until dinner-time comes."

They must needs go whom the Devil drives.

"By God and upon my conscience", said the devil, "I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about." "This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian," said Sancho; "for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself."

[He] is not going to exit to applause, even if the entire human race should favor him.

ومع ذلك، وبعد كل ما جرى،فإن الرغبة فى الحياة هى التى تبقينى حيا

It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.

…as it seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

...you are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch on his throne.

Raise a hue and cry.

Sin inteligencia no puede haber humor.

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

Puede haber amor sin celos, pero no sin temores.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

Para con ella es de cera mi alma, donde podrá imprimir lo que quisiere, y para conservarlo y guardarlo, no será como impreso en cera, sino como esculpido en mámoles, cuya dureza se opone á la duración de los tiempos.

Men have to have friends even in hell.