Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

“Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debera de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

“Until death it is all life”

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

“The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.”

“He who sings scares away his woes.”

“El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.”

“Facts are the enemy of truth.”

“Here lies a gentleman boldWho was so very braveHe went to lengths untold,And on the brink of the graveDeath had on him no hold.By the world he set small store--He frightened it to the core--Yet som...”

“Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.”

“The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.”

“I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings!”

“I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow”

“Sometimes when a father has an ugly, loutish son, the love he bears him so blindfolds his eyes that he does not see his defects, or, rather, takes them for gifts and charms of mind and body, and ta...”

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

“...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads”

“Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.”

“Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in g...”

“All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.”

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

“After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.”