130 Quotations by Miguel de Cervantes
- 1. 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

- 2. 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

- 3. 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another ...

- 4. 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his bod ...

- 5. 'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

- 6. A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

- 7. A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

- 8. A person dishonored is worst than dead.

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

- 10. A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

- 11. Absence -- that common cure of love.

- 12. Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

- 13. All kinds of beauty don't inspire love; there is a kind that pleases only the sight, but does not ca ...

- 14. Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy tha ...

- 15. And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these boo ...

- 16. Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulen ...

- 17. Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.

- 18. Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

- 19. Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

- 20. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

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