Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes

Mira, Sancho, por el mesmo que denantes juraste te juro - dijo don Quijote - que tienes el más corto entendimiento que tiene ni tuvo escudero en el mundo. ¿Que es posible que en cuanto ha que andas co...

Be advised, Sancho, that works of charity performed in a lukewarm and halfhearted way have no merit and are worth nothing.

All I ask of you (this is something you can and should do very easily) is that you advise me where I can spend my life without being overwhelmed by the fear and terror I have of being discovered by th...

Alquimia del dolor El Uno te ilumina con su ardor, El otro en ti te pone su duelo, ¡Natura! El que dice a uno: ¡Sepultura! Dice al otro: ¡Vida y esplendor! Hermes desconocido que me asistes Y que siem...

And so, senora, or senor, or whatever you prefer to be,

And the first thing I have got to say is, that for my own part I hold my master Don Quixote to be stark mad, though sometimes he says things that, to my mind, and indeed everybody's that listens to hi...

And thus, from too little sleep and too much reading, his brain dried up and he completely lost his judgment.

Another thing to strive for: reading your history should move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention,...

Aquí está don Quirieleisón de Montalbán, valeroso caballero, y su hermano Tomás de Montalbán, y el caballero Fonseca, con la batalla que el valiente de Tirante hizo con el alano, y las agudezas de la...

Así podemos creer que el antepasado de la foca no poseyó aletas, sino patas con cinco dedos adecuados para andar o coger, y podemos además aventurarnos a creer que los diversos huesos en las extremida...

Así, ¡oh Sancho!, que nuestras obras no han de salir del límite que nos tiene puesto la religión cristiana, que profesamos. Hemos de matar en los gigantes a la soberbia; a la envidia, en la generosida...

Aun en el caso de las razas del perro doméstico del mundo entero, que admito que descienden de diversas especies salvajes, no puede dudarse que ha habido una cantidad inmensa de variaciones hereditari...

Berganza, I’m not shocked that—since there’s good and bad in all of us—we get the hang of evil in no time.

Bien podrá ello ser así, pero Dubitat Augustinus

Bien podrán los encantadores quitarme la ventura, pero el esfuerzo y el ánimo, será imposible.

But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of or...

But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all which he bor...

But what distressed him greatly was not having another hermit there to confess him and to receive consolation from; and so he solaced himself with pacing up and down the little meadow, and writing and...

But what’s that book next to it? La Galatea, by Miguel de Cervantes,24 said the barber. This Cervantes has been a good friend of mine for many years, and I know that he is better versed in misfortunes...

By God, master, said Sancho, the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I'll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance s...