Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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
Character
Theatre
Play
Fool
Must
Comedy
Acting
Actors
Funny
Simpleton
Difficult
Simpletons
Part
Plays
More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls
Miguel de Cervantes
All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
Miguel de Cervantes
Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
Miguel de Cervantes
Where one door shuts another opens.
Miguel de Cervantes
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
Miguel de Cervantes
Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
Miguel de Cervantes
Heaven's help is better than early rising.
Miguel de Cervantes
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel de Cervantes
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
Miguel de Cervantes
Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
Miguel de Cervantes
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
Miguel de Cervantes
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Miguel de Cervantes
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel de Cervantes
He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
Miguel de Cervantes
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel de Cervantes
I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
Miguel de Cervantes
