Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

a travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.

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,

In the shadow of feigned cripples and false wounds come the strong arms of thieves and very healthy drunkards.

...la música compone los ánimos descompuestos y alivia los trabajos que nacen del espíritu.

Qui se humilliat exaltabitur

"‎"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

He who clipped us has kept the scissors.

The Brave Man
Carves
Out His Fortune,
And
Every Man
Is The Son
Of His Own
Works.

Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men; no treasures that the earth holds buried or the sea conceals can compare with it; for freedom, as for honour, life may and should be ventured; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can fall to the lot of man.

he was by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making books for the press,

Señor,' responded Sancho, 'withdrawing is not running away, and waiting is not sensible when danger outweighs hope, and wise men know to save something for tomorrow and not risk everything in a single day.

Didn't i tell you they were only windmills? And someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!

Aún entre los demonios hay unos peores que otros, y entre muchos malos hombres suele haber alguno bueno.

what I wish to tell you now you must swear to keep secret until after my death.” “I swear,” Sancho responded. “I say this,” replied Don Quixote, “because I do not wish to take away anyone’s honor.” “I say that I swear,” Sancho said again, “to keep quiet about it until your grace has reached the end of your days, and God willing, I’ll be able to reveal it tomorrow.

The poor gentleman has no way of showing that he is a gentleman but by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered, and kindly, not haughty, arrogant, or censorious, but above all by being charitable; for by two maravedis given with a cheerful heart to the poor, he will show himself as generous as he who distributes alms with bell-ringing, and no one that perceives him to be endowed with the virtues I have named, even though he know him not, will fail to recognise and set him down as one of good blood; and it would be strange were it not so; praise has ever been the reward of virtue, and those who are virtuous cannot fail to receive commendation.