Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

72 Famous Quotes by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
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“One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.”
Hatters Quotes
Source: Don Quixote
“I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.”
Shoemaking Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, ch. IV)
“The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantarillo a la fuente.]”
Results Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (I, 30)
“It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]”
Results Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (I, 37)
“Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]”
Flies Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (II, 43)
“Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]”
Prudence Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (II, 9)
“Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.”
Change Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXX)
“Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 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. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.”
Sleep Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LXVIII)
“The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. [Sp., Las necedades del rico por sentencias pasan en el mundo.]”
Wealth Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (II, 43)
“Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]”
Hope Quotes
Source: Don Quixote
“With life many things are remedied. (While there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Con la vida muchas cosas se remedian.]”
Hope Quotes
Source: Don Quixote
“Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]”
Fear Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (III, 6)
“In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]”
Hell Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (I, 25), Sancho Panza, misquoting the saying
“Hell is paved with priests' skulls.”
Hell Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (I, 25), Sancho Panza, misquoting the saying
“God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]”
Help Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, 26)
“Heaven's help is better than early rising.”
Help Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (vol. III, pt. II, ch. XXXIV)
“Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.”
Companionship Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (vol. III, pt. II, ch. XXIII), quoted in
“Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]”
Hunger Quotes
Source: Don Quixote
“Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.]”
Criticism Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (II, 67)
“I have other fish to fry.”
Fish Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXV)
“When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]”
Rome Quotes
Source: Don Quixote
“To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]”
Rome Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (2, 13, 55)
“God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]”
Medicine Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (II, 19)
“Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]”
Cards Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (II, 23)
“Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.”
Wit Quotes
Source: The Little Gypsy