Top 73 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

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

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

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

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.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.