Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
Miguel de Cervantes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Accountant
Author
Lyricist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Soldier
Tax Collector
Writer
Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
Take
Hours
Mad
Half
Acts
Eye
Add
Less
Performing
Wish
Naked
Others
Hour
Safely
Two
Seen
Swear
Might
Eyes
Dozen
More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
Miguel de Cervantes
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
Miguel de Cervantes
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Miguel de Cervantes
Get out of harms way.
Miguel de Cervantes
We must not stand upon trifles.
Miguel de Cervantes
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
Miguel de Cervantes
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Miguel de Cervantes
My honor is dearer to me than my life.
Miguel de Cervantes
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Miguel de Cervantes
Patience and shuffle the cards.
Miguel de Cervantes
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Miguel de Cervantes
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
Miguel de Cervantes
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Miguel de Cervantes
Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
Miguel de Cervantes
She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
Miguel de Cervantes
I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
Miguel de Cervantes
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes
