Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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
Cheat
People
Cheats
Partially
Cunning
Wholly
More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
Miguel de Cervantes
All sorrows are less with bread.
Miguel de Cervantes
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
Miguel de Cervantes
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Patience and shuffle the cards.
Miguel de Cervantes
Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
Miguel de Cervantes
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel de Cervantes
Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
Miguel de Cervantes
Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
Miguel de Cervantes
When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
Miguel de Cervantes
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
Miguel de Cervantes
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Miguel de Cervantes
Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Miguel de Cervantes
Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Miguel de Cervantes
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
Miguel de Cervantes
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
Miguel de Cervantes
