458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

The absent feel and fear every ill.

Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.