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
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.
writing should-have epic-poems
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
writing action born
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
writing soul language
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
writing soul tongue
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
book writing men
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
writing mind tongue
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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.
attractive attributes eyes mercy pleasing though
Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
brave man son
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
house street
By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.