Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

"the horse has come, our beards are growing, and by every hair in them all of us implore thee to shave and shear us, as it is only mounting him with thy squire and making a happy beginning with your new journey." "That I will, Senora Countess Trifaldi," said

»No comas ajos ni cebollas, porque no saquen por el olor tu villanería.

Y fue esta negación añadir llama a llama y deseo a deseo, porque, aunque pusieron silencio a las lenguas, no le pudieron poner a las plumas, las cuales con más libertad que las lenguas suelen dar a entender a quien quieren lo que en el alma está encerrado, que muchas veces la presencia de la cosa amada turba y enmudece la intención más determinada y la lengua más atrevida.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

a razão da sem-razão que à minha razão se faz, de tal maneira a minha razão enfraquece, que com razão me queixo da vossa formosura; e também quando lia: os altos céus que de vossa divindade divinamente com as estrelas vos fortificam, e vos fazem merecedora do merecimento que merece a vossa grandeza.

The reason for the unreason to which my reason turns so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of thy beauty. And also when he read:…the heavens on high divinely heighten thy divinity with the stars and make thee deserving of the deserts thy greatness deserves.

With these words and phrases the poor gentleman lost his mind, and he spent sleepless nights trying to understand them and extract their meaning, which Aristotle himself, if he came back to life for only that purpose, would not have been able to decipher or understand.

And letting out thirty groans and sixty sighs and one hundred and twenty curses on the head of the person who’d brought him there, he hauled himself to his feet,

Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.

El andar en tierras y comunicar con diversas gentes, hace a los hombres discretos.

That night the housekeeper burned all the books there were in the stable yard and in all the house; and there must have been some that went up in smoke which should have been preserved in everlasting archives, if the one who did the scrutinizing had not been so indolent. Thus we see the truth of the old saying, to the effect that the innocent must sometimes pay for the sins of the guilty.

"Say, on, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and be brief in thy discourse, for there is no pleasure in one that is long."

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

El que lee mucho y anda mucho, vee mucho y sabe mucho.

La verdad y la creencia en la verdad de una cosa son dos mundos de intereses completamente extraños el uno al otro, son casi dos mundos opuestos, se va del uno al otro por caminos profundamente diversos.