Cervantes Saavedra Good Quotations

Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers others virgins - namely, all the other sciences - make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds

All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.