458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

We must not stand upon trifles.

He who gives early gives twice.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

Man have to have friends even in hell.