Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

Amor y deseo son dos cosas diferentes; que no todo lo que se ama se desea, ni todo lo que se desea se ama.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.

Confía en el tiempo, que suele dar dulces salidas a muchas amargas dificultades...

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

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.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

...without intelligence, there can be no humour.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

To dream the impossible dream, that is my quest.

What intelligent things you say sometimes ! One would think you had studied.