Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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Miguel de Cervantes

Profession : Novelist

Birth : September 29, 1547

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Miguel de Cervantes

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Miguel de Cervantes

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Miguel de Cervantes

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Miguel de Cervantes

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Miguel de Cervantes

He had a face like a blessing.

Miguel de Cervantes

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Miguel de Cervantes