458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

And so, let it be said that this aforementioned gentleman spent his times of leisure --which meant most of the year-- reading books of chivalry with so much devotion and enthusiasm that he forgot almost completely about the hunt and even about the administration of his estate; and in his rash curiosity and folly he went so far as to sell acres of arable land in order to buy books of chivalry to read, and he brought as many of them as he could into his house...

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art

It is a disposition natural in women,” said Don Quixote, “to slight those who love them, and love those who hate them.

The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.

And if your misfortune should prove to be one of those that refuse admission to any sort of consolation, it was my purpose to join you in lamenting and mourning over it, so far as I could; for it is still some comfort in misfortune to find one who can feel for it.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Honesty's the best policy.

That which costs little is less valued.

Men have to have friends even in hell.