458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters; others have stayed upon their masters' graves without stirring a moment from them, and have voluntarily starved themselves to death, refusing to touch the food that was brought them.

Thank you for nothing.

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.