Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Come back sound, wind and limb.

You may go whistle for the rest.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

On the word of a gentleman, and a Christian.

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

Youngsters read it [Don Quixote's story], grown men understand it, and old people applaud it.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.

No better than she should be.

Ne'er look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

He casts a sheep's eye at the wench.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Let every man mind his own business.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

He's [Don Quixote's] a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

Here's the devil-and-all to pay.