Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.”

“Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.”

“If one were to reply that those who compose these books write them as fictions, and therefore are not obliged to consider the fine points of truth, I should respond that the more truthful the ficti...”

“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”

“In any case, Cide Hamete Benengeli was a very careful historian, and very accurate in all things, as can be clearly seen in the details he relates to us, for although they are trivial and inconsequ...”

“Honesty's the best policy.”

“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~”

“Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob.”

“All sorrows are less with bread. ”

“A closed mouth catches no flies.”

“That which costs little is less valued.”

“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art”

“I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.”

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

“Thou hast seen nothing yet.”

“And as the wicked are always ungrateful, and necessity leads to evil doing, and immediate advantage overcomes all considerations of the future, Gins, who was neither grateful nor well-principled, m...”

“...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.”

“...if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of p...”

“We know already ample experience that it does not require much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred round about us that scarcely know how to read.”

“A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead.”