Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – 22 April 1616), was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 September 1547
CountrySpain
hands long evil
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.
writing hands giving
But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
climbing hands knights
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.
freedom men hands
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
vanity handsome imagine
For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
hands devil world
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
blessed hands gentleman
Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
honesty heart hands
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.
wise hands tongue
The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
hands evil long
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
company thou thy
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
deal great man
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
son acceptance men
Every man is the son of his own works.
emotional glasses giants
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.