458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.

It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Seek for good, but expect evil.