Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

And as the wicked are always ungrateful, and necessity leads to evil doing, and immediate advantage overcomes all considerations of the future, Ginés, who was neither grateful nor well-principled, made up his mind to steal Sancho Panza's ass.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Мирът е най-висшето благо, което желаят хората в този свят.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

It is ambition, but a generous ambition, that seeks to improve one's status without harm to others.

there is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~ September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

Thank you for nothing.

Porque he oído decir que esta que llaman por ahí Fortuna es una mujer borracha y antojadiza, y sobre todo ciega, y, así, no ve lo que hace, ni sabe a quién derriba ni a quién ensalza

Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in the fair characters they maintain.

Don Quixote is so crazy that he is sure no author could have invented him

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body,
That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct,
Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man;
And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body,
Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

no le faltaba otra cosa sino buscar una dama de quien enamorarse; porque el caballero andante sin amores era árbol sin hojas y sin fruto y cuerpo sin alma.