Portrait of Cervantes

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
Biblical Unverifiable

Love is a great master.

1605 — Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter XIII
Love & Relationships Unverifiable

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter VII
Inspirational Unverifiable

All that glitters is not gold.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter XXXIII
Wisdom Unverifiable

The greatest enemy of truth is not falsehood, but indifference.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter LIX
War & Conflict Unverifiable

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

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter LXVIII
Wisdom Confirmed

To err is human, to forgive divine.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter XXXVIII
Biblical Unverifiable

The die is cast.

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter LXXIV
Life & Death Unverifiable

There is no evil that does not bring some good.

1605 — Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter XLVI
Life & Death Unverifiable

Too much sanity may be madness.

1615 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part II, Chapter 1)
Wisdom Unverifiable

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

1605 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part I, Chapter 5)
Wisdom Unverifiable

A dog's obeyed in office.

1615 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part II, Chapter 1)
Wisdom Unverifiable

The fault is not in the wine but in the drinker.

— Attributed to Cervantes
Wisdom Unverifiable

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

1615 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part II, Chapter 10)
Wisdom Unverifiable

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

1615 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part II, Chapter 4)
Biblical Unverifiable

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

1605 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part I, Chapter 21)
Biblical Unverifiable

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

1615 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part II, Chapter 5)
Wisdom Unverifiable

Let every man mind his own business.

1605 — From 'Don Quixote' (Part I, Chapter 8)
Money & Business Unverifiable

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
Religious Unverifiable

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

1615 — Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter 20
General Unverifiable
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