Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

To give the devil his due.

Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?

Paid him in his own coin.

Without a wink of sleep.

Attend to me, Sancho, I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be for ever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

I can see with half an eye.

I ever loved to see everything upon the square.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

A good name is better than riches.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

A word to the wise is enough.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

All is not gold that glitters.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

As ill-luck would have it.

As they use to say, spick and span new.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock.

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

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

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

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.