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Miguel Cervantes

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

— Miguel Cervantes

This famous work has been translated into English by many authors, and an attempt will be made to source the translations which are used here.

— Miguel Cervantes work

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

— Miguel Cervantes love

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

— Miguel Cervantes fire

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

— Miguel Cervantes free

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

— Miguel Cervantes pain

En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no hace mucho tiempo que viv

— Miguel Cervantes man

As ill-luck would have it.

— Miguel Cervantes luck

Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.

— Miguel Cervantes wit

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

— Miguel Cervantes good

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

— Miguel Cervantes work

Put you in this pickle.

— Miguel Cervantes you

He had a face like a benediction.

— Miguel Cervantes

The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.

— Miguel Cervantes work

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

— Miguel Cervantes words

The eyes those silent tongues of Love.

— Miguel Cervantes eyes

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

— Miguel Cervantes people

Without a wink of sleep.

— Miguel Cervantes sleep

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

— Miguel Cervantes man

Fair and softly goes far.

— Miguel Cervantes

No limits but the sky.

— Miguel Cervantes sky

Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.

— Miguel Cervantes fear

To give the devil his due.

— Miguel Cervantes evil

Plain as the nose on a man's face.

— Miguel Cervantes man

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

— Miguel Cervantes war

You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.

— Miguel Cervantes wrong

Bell, book, and candle.

— Miguel Cervantes book

You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.

— Miguel Cervantes you

Let the worst come to the worst.

— Miguel Cervantes

You are come off now with a whole skin.

— Miguel Cervantes wit

That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

— Miguel Cervantes love

Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

— Miguel Cervantes alone

Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?

— Miguel Cervantes wild

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

— Miguel Cervantes wit

The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

— Miguel Cervantes will

Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil.

— Miguel Cervantes man

I tell thee, that is Mambrino's helmet.

— Miguel Cervantes

Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I'll stick.

— Miguel Cervantes world

— Miguel Cervantes

Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

— Miguel Cervantes science

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

— Miguel Cervantes sorrow

Thank you for nothing.

— Miguel Cervantes you

After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.

— Miguel Cervantes money

Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.

— Miguel Cervantes education

Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity.

— Miguel Cervantes cat

Let every man mind his own business.

— Miguel Cervantes mind

Murder will out.

— Miguel Cervantes will

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

— Miguel Cervantes war

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

— Miguel Cervantes cats

Raise a hue and cry.

— Miguel Cervantes cry

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action when there is more reason to fear than to hope. 'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket. And though I am but a clown, or a bumpkin, as you may say, yet I would have you to know I know what is what, and have always taken care of the main chance...

— Miguel Cervantes hope

I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.

— Miguel Cervantes care

The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.

— Miguel Cervantes life

I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.

— Miguel Cervantes right

Within a stone's throw of it.

— Miguel Cervantes wit

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

— Miguel Cervantes

Absence, that common cure of love.

— Miguel Cervantes love

From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing.

— Miguel Cervantes war

Let us make hay while the sun shines.

— Miguel Cervantes sun

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

— Miguel Cervantes men

Little said is soonest mended.

— Miguel Cervantes men

A close mouth catches no flies.

— Miguel Cervantes lies

She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry.

— Miguel Cervantes

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.

— Miguel Cervantes world

It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.

— Miguel Cervantes art

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

— Miguel Cervantes

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

— Miguel Cervantes time

'Twill grieve me so to the heart that I shall cry my eyes out.

— Miguel Cervantes art

Ready to split his sides with laughing.

— Miguel Cervantes wit

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

— Miguel Cervantes truth

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

— Miguel Cervantes life

Delay always breeds danger.

— Miguel Cervantes anger

Think before thou speakest.

— Miguel Cervantes think

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

— Miguel Cervantes forgive

They must needs go whom the Devil drives.

— Miguel Cervantes evil

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

— Miguel Cervantes

More knave than fool.

— Miguel Cervantes

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

— Miguel Cervantes you

I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days.

— Miguel Cervantes read

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

— Miguel Cervantes evil

I begin to smell a rat.

— Miguel Cervantes

I will take my corporal oath on it.

— Miguel Cervantes will

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

— Miguel Cervantes

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

— Miguel Cervantes

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

— Miguel Cervantes past

It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, thatis the mother of good fortune.

— Miguel Cervantes good

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

— Miguel Cervantes man

I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.

— Miguel Cervantes desire

It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.

— Miguel Cervantes understanding

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

— Miguel Cervantes time

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains.

— Miguel Cervantes art

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

— Miguel Cervantes truth

He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked what he painted, answered, "As it may hit;" and when he had scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in Gothic letters, "This is a cock."

— Miguel Cervantes pain

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

— Miguel Cervantes books

"There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it."

— Miguel Cervantes book

Cada uno es como Dios le hizo, y a

— Miguel Cervantes

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

— Miguel Cervantes world

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

— Miguel Cervantes soul

Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

— Miguel Cervantes travel

— Miguel Cervantes sex

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