458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

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

It takes all sorts (to make a world

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

Behind the cross is the devil.

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.