Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

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.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

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

"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

Delay always breeds danger.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

That which costs little is less valued.

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

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Let every man mind his own business.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.