Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

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.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

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

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

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.