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Miguel De Cervantes
219 quotes
“Murder will out.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.”
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“Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.”
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“Raise a hue and cry.”
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“To do good to villains is to pour water into the sea.”
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“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action when there is more reason to fear than to hope. 'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket. And though I am but a clown, or a bumpkin, as you may say, yet I would have you to know I know what is what, and have always taken care of the main chance...”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sancho to Don Quixote, in Ch. 9, (tr. Peter Anthony Motteux, 1701).
“I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.”
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“The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.”
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“I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.”
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“Within a stone's throw of it.”
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“The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.”
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“Absence, that common cure of love.”
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“From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing.”
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“Let us make hay while the sun shines.”
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“I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.”
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“Little said is soonest mended.”
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“A close mouth catches no flies.”
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“A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 11 (tr. J. M. Cohen, 1950).
“My lady can guess what I would do in the wet if I do all this in the dry.”
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Recorded in: Ch. 11 (tr. J. M. Cohen, 1950).
“You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.”
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“It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.”
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“Thou hast seen nothing yet.”
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“Let each man say what he chooses; if because of this I am criticized by the ignorant, I shall not be chastised by the learned.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 11 (tr. Edith Grossman, 2003).
“My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.”
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“Ready to split his sides with laughing.”
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“My honor is dearer to me than my life.”
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“Delay always breeds danger.”
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“In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.”
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Recorded in: Ch. 2 (tr. J. M. Cohen, 1950).
“Think before thou speakest.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us forget and forgive injuries.”
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“I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.”
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“They must needs go whom the Devil drives.”
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“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
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Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“More knave than fool.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.”
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“I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days.”
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“Here is the devil-and-all to pay.”
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“I begin to smell a rat.”
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“I will take my corporal oath on it.”
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“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
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Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.”
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“It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.”
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“It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, that diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
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“The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.”
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“I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.”
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“You are a villain and a scoundrel," said Don Quixote, "and you are the one who is vacant and foolish; I have more upstairs than the whore who bore you ever did".”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 25 (tr. Edith Grossman, 2003).
“It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.”
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“When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains.”
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“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.”
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“There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.”
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