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

By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.

As ill-luck would have it.

Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio.

En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no hace mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.

-->* They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.

-->* I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas.

Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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