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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  • Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
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  • Every man is the son of his own works.
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  • Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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  • Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
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  • Faint heart never won fair lady.
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  • Fair and softly goes far.
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  • Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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  • For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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  • God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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  • Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
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  • Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
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  • He had a face like a blessing.
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  • He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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  • He preaches well that lives well.
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  • He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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  • Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
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  • I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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  • 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.
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  • I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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  • I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
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