Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

1547 – 1616

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 – 23 April 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is most famous for his novel Don Quixote, or Don Quijote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature, and the greatest of the Spanish language.

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There die many more of the trustful than of the wary.

Mueren muchos más de los confiados que de los recatados.

Control your tongue, for from it flow the greatest evils of human life.

Vete a la lengua, que en ella consisten los mayores daños de la humana vida.

By the things they say I did when I was mad, you can consider what I shall say and do when I am sane.

Por las cosas que dicen que dije cuando loco, podéis considerar las que diré y haré cuando cuerdo.

Los buenos artistas imitan la naturaleza; los malos, la vomitan.

I am not suited to the palace, for I have self-respect and do not know how to flatter.

Yo no soy bueno para palacio, porque tengo vergüenza y no sé lisonjear.

Time will be gained, and time usually provides a sweet ending for many bitter difficulties.

Se dará tiempo al tiempo, que suele dar dulce salida a muchas amargas difficultades.

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

For her my soul is of wax, where she can imprint whatever she pleases; and to preserve and guard it, it will not be as if imprinted in wax, but as if sculpted in marble, whose hardness withstands the passage of time.

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.

No te asotiles tanto, que te despuntarás...