Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra quotes:

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

Honesty's the best policy.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Delay always heeds danger

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads

Believe me, fair lady, you may call yourself fortunate in having in this castle of yours sheltered my person, which is such that if I do not myself praise it, it is because of what is commonly said, that self-praise debaseth;"

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage."

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love' there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Art does not surpass nature but perfects it.

He who sings scares away his woes.