Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 29, 1547 – April 23, 1616), was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, or Don Quijote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature, and the greatest of the Spanish language.
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Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605-1615)
- You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
- Author's Preface
- I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.
- Author's Preface
- They can expect nothing but their labor forn their pains.
- Author's Preface
- Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.
- Part I, Book I, ch. 4
- By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
- Part I, Book I, ch. 4
- Put you in this pickle.
- Part I, Book I, ch. 5
- Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
- Part I, Book I, ch. 6
- The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.
- Part I, Book I, ch. 8
- Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
- Part I, Book II, ch. 3
- The eyes those silent tongues of Love.
- Part I, Book II, ch. 3
- There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
- Part I, Book II, ch. 4
- Without a wink of sleep.
- Part I, Book II, ch. 4
- No limits but the sky.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 3
- To give the devil his due.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 3
- You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 4
- Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things undeground, and much more in the skies.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 6
- That's the nature of women...not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 6
- Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 6
- Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?
- Part I, Book III, ch. 6
- Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 7
- Let every man mind his own business.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 8
- Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 8
- Raise a hue and cry.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 8
- 'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 9
- Within a stone's throw of it.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 9
- The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 10
- Absence, that common cure of love.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 10
- From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 10
- Thou hast seen nothing yet.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 11
- My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 11
- 'Twill grieve me so to the heart that I shall cry my eyes out.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 11
- Ready to split his sides with laughing.
- Part I, Book III, ch. 13
- My honor is dearer to me than my life.
- Part I, Book IV, ch. 1
- Think before thou speakest.
- Part I, Book IV, ch. 3
- Let us forget and forgive injuries.
- Part I, Book IV, ch. 3
- I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
- Part I, Book IV, ch. 3
- I begin to smell a rat.
- Part I, Book IV, ch. 10
- The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
- Part I, Book IV, ch. 10
- Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.
- Part I, Book IV, ch. 10
- The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
- Part I, Book IV, ch. 21
- It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.
- Part II (1615), Book III, Author's Preface
- When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 2
- History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 3
- Cada uno es como Dios le hizo, y aún peor muchas veces.
- Translation: Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 4
- Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 6
- The fair sex.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 6
- A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 7
- Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."
- Part II, Book III, ch. 10
- Forewarned forearmed.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 10
- As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 10
- Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?
- Part II, Book III, ch. 10
- I'll turn over a new leaf.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 13
- Marriage is a noose.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 19
- There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 20
- Love and War are the same thing, and strategems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 21
- A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 22
- There is no love lost, sir.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 22
- Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 23
- Tomorrow will be a new day.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 26
- Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 32
- Honesty's the best policy.
- Part II, Book III, ch. 33
- An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
- Part II, Book IV, ch. 34
- Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.
- Part II, Book IV, ch. 37
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- Part II, Book IV, ch. 38
- What a man has, so much he's sure of.
- Part II, Book IV, ch. 38
- The pot calls the kettle black.
- Part II, Book IV, ch. 38
- Mum's the word.
- Part II, Book IV, ch. 44
- I shall be as secret as the grave.
- Part II, Book IV, ch. 62
- The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
- Part II, Book IV, ch. 71
- He...got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.
- Part II, Book IV, ch. 72
- Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
- Part II, Book IV, ch. 73
- There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously aleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the deah of friends.
- Part II, Book IV, ch. 74
- For if he like a madman lived,
At least he like a wise one died.- Don Qixote's epitaph
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La Gitanilla (The Little Gypsy)
- Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
- My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Attributed
- Amistades que son ciertas nadie las puede turbar.
- Translation: Nobody can disrupt true friendships.
- Amor y deseo son dos cosas diferentes; que no todo lo que se ama se desea, ni todo lo que se desea se ama.
- Translation: Love and desire are two different things; not everything that is loved is desired, and not everything that is desired is loved.
- El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.
- Translation: He who reads much and walks much sees much and knows much.
- En los principios amorosos los desengaños prestos suelen ser remedios calificados.
- Translation: In the loving principles the quick disappointments are usually described remedies.
- Encomiéndate a Dios de todo corazón, que muchas veces suele llover sus misericordias en el tiempo que están más secas las esperanzas.
- Translation: Commend yourself to God with all your heart; He often rains down His mercies when hope is at its driest.
- La buena y verdadera amistad no debe ser sospechosa en nada.
- Translation: True and good friendship must not be suspicious of anything.
- La pluma es la lengua del alma.
- Translation: The pen is the tongue of the soul.
- Más vale la pena en el rostro que la mancha en el corazón.
- Translation: Grief on the face is better than the stain in the heart.
- Puede haber amor sin celos, pero no sin temores.
- Translation: There may be love without jealousy, but there is none without fear.
- The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
- Alternate: Every man's the son of his own deeds.
- He who loses wealth loses much, he who loses a friend loses more, but he that loses his honor loses all.
- There is no greater folly in this world than for a man to despair.
- A stout man's heart breaks bad luck.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness – its opposite – never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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