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
worst
Let the worst come to the worst.
evil goodness
Seek for good, but expect evil.
littles riches calamity
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
absence ill feels
The absent feel and fear every ill.
courage war weapons
It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
death teeth spite
There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
enough persons handle
All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
equality world earth
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
evil ifs
Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
friends men law
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.
women jewels world
There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
hell retention
In hell there is no retention.
knights coward
Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.
devil crosses behinds
Behind the cross is the devil.