Top 73 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

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

To be prepared is half the victory.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

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.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.