Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer and poet

Lived from: 1547 - 1616

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagSpain

Born: 9 october 1547 Died: 22 april 1616

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  • Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
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  • Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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  • There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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  • 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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  • 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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  • 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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  • 'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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  • A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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  • A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
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  • A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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  • A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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  • A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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  • Absence, that common cure of love.
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  • Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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  • Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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  • By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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  • By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
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  • Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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  • Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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  • Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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What are the most famous quotes from Miguel de Cervantes?

The two most famous quotes from Miguel de Cervantes are:

  • "Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long."
  • "Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills."

When did Miguel de Cervantes live?

Miguel de Cervantes was born in 1547 and died in the year 1616.