Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Love

Morning

Running

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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.

Death

Prayer

Rap

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“From what I have seen here,” remarked Sancho, “justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary.”

Economy

Justice

Politics

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“He preaches well that lives well,” quoth Sancho, “that’s all the divinity I can understand.”

Divinity

Life

Wells

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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.

Months

World

Years

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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

History

Posterity

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Mouths

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A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

Children

Clever

Witty

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A good name is better than bags of gold.

Bags

Gold

Names

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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

Causes

Knights

Mad

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