458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Dine on little, and sup on less.

Many littles make a much.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.