458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Every dog has his day.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.