Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Early Modern Spanish writer and novelists
| Date of Birth | : | 29 Sep, 1547 |
| Date of Death | : | 22 Apr, 1616 |
| Place of Birth | : | Alcala de Henares, Spain |
| Profession | : | Spanish Writer, Novelists |
| Nationality | : | Spanish |
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and "the first great novel of world literature". A 2002 poll of 100 well-known authors voted it the "best book of all time", as voted by the judges from among the "best and most central works in world literature".
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
