458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

There is no proverb that is not true.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.