Famous Miguel De Cervantes Quotes

'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. - Don Quixote.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

Absence, that common cure of love.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

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

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

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
-- Miguel De Cervantes

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
-- Miguel De Cervantes