Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

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

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

There's no love lost between us.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

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

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

Thank you for nothing.

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

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.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

Fair and softly goes far.