Miguel de Cervantes: Quotes about the world

Miguel de Cervantes was Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. Explore interesting quotes on world.
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“Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I'll stick.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 7.

“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 42.

“There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 20.

“It takes all sorts (to make a world)”

Miguel de Cervantes

de todos ha de haber en el mundo (literally, “There must be of all [types] in the world”)
Ch. 6 / El ingenioso caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha, Capítulo VI
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV

“The best sauce in the world is hunger.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 5.

“Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 68.

“A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 22.

“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.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 3.

“You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.