Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

He… got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.

By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

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

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

And had a face like a benediction.

As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.

You are come off now with a whole skin.

Honesty's the best policy.

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

Little said is soon amended.

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Between jest and earnest.

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

A blot in thy scutcheon to all futurity.

Presume to put in her oar.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

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

Within a stone's throw of it.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

Neither will I make myself anybody's laughingstock.

Tomorrow will be a new day.