Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

To surrender dreams — this may be madness.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

The knight’s sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

It’s up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they’re going well.

He who’s down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

Until death it is all life.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

Perhaps to be too practical is madness.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

“There is no book so bad but it has something good in it.”

For hope is always born at the same time as love.