Cervantes

Don Quixote

Early Modern influential 114 sayings

Sayings by Cervantes

There are two kinds of beauty, one of the soul and the other of the body.

1605 — Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter XIV
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Love is a great master.

1605 — Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter XIII
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter VII
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

All that glitters is not gold.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter XXXIII
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The greatest enemy of truth is not falsehood, but indifference.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter LIX
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter LXVIII
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

To err is human, to forgive divine.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter XXXVIII
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The die is cast.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter LXXIV
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

There is no evil that does not bring some good.

1605 — Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter XLVI
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Too much sanity may be madness.

1615 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part II, Chapter 1)
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose.

1605 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part I, Chapter 5)
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

A dog's obeyed in office.

1615 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part II, Chapter 1)
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The fault is not in the wine but in the drinker.

— Attributed to Cervantes
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

1615 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part II, Chapter 10)
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

1615 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part II, Chapter 4)
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

1605 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part I, Chapter 21)
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

1615 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part II, Chapter 5)
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Let every man mind his own business.

1605 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part I, Chapter 8)
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The greatest madness a man can commit is to let himself die without being killed by anyone, or without ending his days by some other means than melancholy.

1605 — Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter 14
Controversial Unverifiable

There are only two families in the world: the Haves and the Have-Nots.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter 20
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