458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.