More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
