More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in the fair characters they maintain.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
