Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

É assim, do pouco dormir e do muito ler se lhe secou o cérebro, de maneira que chegou a perder o juízo.

Woman is made of fragile glass;
but do not put her to the test
to see if she will break,
for that might come to pass.
She is too apt to shatter,
and wisdom is surely ended
if what can ne'er be mended
is put in the way of danger.
What I say to you is true,
and let us all agree :
wherever Danae may be,
showers of gold are there, too.

What covers you discovers you.

"Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease."

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Yo no creo en brujas, pero que las hay, las hay.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos.

La libertad, Sancho, es uno de los más preciosos dones que a los hombres dieron los cielos; con ella no pueden igualarse los tesoros que encierra la tierra ni el mar encubre; por la libertad, así como por la honra, se puede y debe aventurar la vida, y, por el contrario, el cautiverio es el mayor mal que puede venir a los hombres.

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

Honesty's the best policy.

Where one door shuts, another opens.

"Donde una puerta se cierra, otra se abre
"Where a door is closed, another is opened"
~ Don Quixote de la Mancha"