Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
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...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 September 1547
CountrySpain
Miguel de Cervantes quotes about
prompts urgent
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
honey
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
hands evil long
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
sex men mind
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
pain remembrance doe
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
queens latin color
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
work men brave
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
compassion literature fairness
Fair and softly goes far.
writing soul tongue
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
eye tongue caution
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
positive doors
When one door is shut, another opens.
mind wit-and-humor wit
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
adventure way
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
friendship art thee
Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.