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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes about Literature

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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Miguel de Cervantes

Self Esteem, Enemy, Literature

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.407, Wordsworth Editions

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel de Cervantes

Women, Literature

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.114, Wordsworth Editions

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Miguel de Cervantes

Literature, Virtue, Nobility

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1719). “THE HISTORY Of the RENOWNED Don QUIXOTE De la MANCHA.”, p.129

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Miguel de Cervantes

Secret, Promise, Literature

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Miguel de Cervantes

Lying, Literature, Cowardice

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Miguel de Cervantes

Son, Literature, Deeds

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Discipline, Literature, Praise

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1948). “The Living Thoughts of Cervantes”

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Miguel de Cervantes

Literature, Advantage, Servant

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.232

Fair and softly goes far.

Miguel de Cervantes

Compassion, Literature, Fairness

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Miguel de Cervantes

Optimistic, Literature

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.158, Wordsworth Editions

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Miguel de Cervantes

Long, Literature, Sentences

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1857). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.356

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

Forever, Missing, Literature

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.464

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Miguel de Cervantes

Honor, Literature, Worst

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Miguel de Cervantes

Law, Literature, Pity

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.68

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

Thinking, Poetry, Literature

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Miguel de Cervantes

Giants, Looks, Literature

"Don Quixote".

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fear, Integrity, Literature

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.93

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Sadness, Comfort, Literature

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.242

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Miguel de Cervantes

Literature, World, Sin

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.214

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Miguel de Cervantes

Literature, Bows, Bent

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.337, Wordsworth Editions

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Miguel de Cervantes

Mother, Believe, Literature

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

Mean, Benefits, Literature

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Miguel de Cervantes

War, Literature, Conflict

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.27

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