65 Quotes by Cervantes Saavedra

Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise - saving her ladyship's presence.

Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.

I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but all the Twelve Peers of France, and all the Nine Worthies as well.

In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.

All music jars when the soul is out of tune

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice