458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

The journey is better than the inn".

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.