Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

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

“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

“To be prepared is half the victory.”

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”

“I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is n...”

“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”

“They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am bein...”

“The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

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

“A stout heart breaks bad luck.”

“A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.”

“Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.”

“Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.”

“He who sings frightens away his ills.”

“All will come out in the washing.”

“Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.”

“He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.”

“Faint heart never won fair lady.”