Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – 22 April 1616), was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists...
achievement love men sexual
Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end
looked ran thoughts
But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
bad hanged house judgment man speak
It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged
bad good imitate nature painters
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
begging power stand
Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
capable characters nine peers twelve
I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but all the Twelve Peers of France, and all the Nine Worthies as well.
fear ground
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
effect eye heart
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases; what the eye ne'er sees, the heart ne'er rues
account authors clear full lucid mad madness physicians
All the physicians and authors in the world could not give a clear account of his madness. He is mad in patches, full of lucid intervals.
beauty inspire kinds pleases sight
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.
help primary saying talk
In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.
complain enjoy luck passes
Who doesn't know how to enjoy luck when it comes, should not complain when it passes him by
answer man says
When a man says ""Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?"" there's no answer to be made
art coward thou
Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.