Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Short sentences drawn from long experiences.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.

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

Facts are the enemy of truth.