Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes

Ley 142: Si una desprecio al marido y le dijo no me tendrás como mujer en lo sucesivo, y si ella ha sido correcta y vigilante y no hay error en su conducta, y si su marido ha sido negligente, esta muj...

You should know, Sancho, said Don Quixote, that love shows no restraint, and does not keep within the bounds of reason as it proceeds, and has the same character as death: it attacks the noble palaces...

I am not in the habit', said Don Quixote, 'of despoiling those whom I vanquish, nor is it a custom of chivalry to take their horses and leave them on foot, unless the victor has lost his own horse in...

Happy the age, happy the time, to which the ancients gave the name of golden, not because in that fortunate age the gold so coveted in this our iron one was gained without toil, but because they that...

I’m so lucky, said Sancho, that when that happens and your grace finds such a sword, it’ll be exactly like the balm and only work for and benefit dubbed knights, while squires can just swallow their s...

Llegó la tarde, partiéronse de aquel lugar, y a obra de media legua se apartaban dos caminos diferentes, el uno que guiaba a la aldea de don Quijote, y el otro el que había de llevar don Álvaro. En es...

Quien no ríe leyendo el Quijote es o porque no entiende la novela o porque tiene la desgracia de no poseer la facultad de reír, que es la que distingue al hombre de los animales

Mas, quien yerra y se enmienda, a Dios se encomienda.

I was born like everyone else, and a man must not live in dependence on anyone except God;

Y tuvo razón, porque la verdad adelgaza y no quiebra, y siempre anda sobre la mentira como el aceite sobre el agua.

Scholarship without virtue is like pearls pearls

Sancho, de puro bien criado, no quería sentarse; pero la duquesa le dijo que se sentase como gobernador y hablase como escudero,

Siveys ja hyvyys ovat sielun koristeita, joiden puuttuessa ei ruumista tule pitää kauniina, vaikka se olisikin kaunis.

Those who had listened to Grisóstomo’s song thought it was very good, though the one who read it said he did not think it conformed to the accounts he had heard of Marcela’s virtue and modesty, becaus...

No me gusta la fuerza bruta, pero la razón bruta es totalmente insoportable. No está bien utilizarla. Es como golpear por debajo del intelecto.

You should know, Sancho, that a man is not worth more than any other if he does not do more than any other.

Deteneos y sed más bien criado, y dadme cuenta de lo que os he preguntado; si no, conmigo sois todos en batalla. Era la mula asombradiza, y al tomarla del freno se espantó de manera que, alzándose en...

This is a fault incident to all those who presume to translate books of verse into another language. For, however much care they take and however much ability they employ, they can never equal the qua...

Don Quixote did not sleep at all that night but thought of his lady Dulcinea, in order to conform to what he had read in his books of knights spending many sleepless nights in groves and meadows, turn...

Y, así como la víbora no merece ser culpada por la ponzoña que tiene, puesto que con ella mata, por habérsela dado naturaleza, tampoco yo merezco ser reprehendida por ser hermosa; que la hermosura en...