Cervantes Saavedra Quotes

"Absence, that common cure of love."

"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."

"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."

"Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end"

"The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce"

"I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone keep the cobwebs out of my eyes."

"Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

"Delay always heeds danger."

"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."

"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."

"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."

"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."

"If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne."

"Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies."

"Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes."

"Can one desire too much of a good thing?"

"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."

"Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes."

"Give the devil his due"

"He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals."