35 Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Miguel de Cervantes was an eminent author from Spain.

His work 'Don Quixote' is one of the most translated literary works of all time. Many Miguel de Cervantes quotes have been derived from the novel and are celebrated even today.

'Don Quixote' has been translated into over 140 languages and is the second most translated book after 'The Bible'. Being a classical author of Western literature, here are some Miguel de Cervantes quotes to enlighten your day!

Undoubtedly one of the most celebrated authors of all time, Miguel de Cervantes' quotes let you take a sneak into the mind of this creative genius.

"A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause."

- ‘Don Quixote’.

"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."

- ‘Don Quixote’.

"There’s only one bad thing about sleep, as far as I’ve ever heard, and that is that it resembles death since there’s very little difference between a sleeping man and a corpse."

- 'Of The Bristly Adventure That Happened To Don Quixote'.

"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."

"I am well aware that I am not handsome, but I also know that I am not deformed, and it is enough for a man of worth not to be a monster for him to be dearly loved, provided he has those spiritual endowments I have spoken of."

"Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds."

- 'Don Quixote'.

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

- 'Don Quixote'.

"A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead."

His novel 'Don Quixote' is one of the most popular novels of all time. Here are some quotes extracted from the book.

"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."

"Let every man mind his own business."

"The best sauce in the world is hunger."

"All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst."

"What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?"

"Fortune always leaves a door open in adversity in order to bring relief to it."

"Absence - that common cure of love."

"The pot calls the kettle black."

"It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even."

"The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water."

"I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view."

"I was born free, and that I might live in freedom I chose the solitude of the fields; in the trees of the mountains, I find society, the clear waters of the brooks are my mirrors, and to the trees and waters I make known my thoughts and charms."

"There is a remedy for all things except death."

"If Chrysostom's impatience and violent passion killed him, why should my modest behavior and circumspection be blamed? If I preserve my purity in the society of the trees, why should he who would have me preserve it among men, seek to rob me of it?"

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars, and the world will be better for this."

Miguel de Cervantes was a wise man in his day. He left a legacy that is hard to forget. These quotes will undoubtedly motivate you to develop an interest in his life.

"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action when there is more reason to fear than to hope. ‘Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket."

- 'The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha, Volume 1'.

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."

"All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections."

"Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little."

Some of Miguel de Cervantes's Quotes are considered classics of all time. Here are some of them to show you the same.

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"

- 'Don Quixote'.

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

"BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."

"That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an ugly man."

"And when we focus our attention upon that beauty, not upon the physical, love generally arises with great violence and intensity."

"A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse."

"Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it, we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals."

"They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder, for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling."

- 'Don Quixote'.