Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections."

"Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an ugly man. And when we focus our attention upon that beauty, not upon the physical, love generally arises with great violence and intensity. I am well aware that I am not handsome, but I also know that I am not deformed, and it is enough for a man of worth not to be a monster for him to be dearly loved, provided he has those spiritual endowments I have spoken of."

"I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings!"

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

"Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold,And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store--He frightened it to the core--Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,Though he'd lived a crazy man,When he died he was sane once more."

"The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf."

"Facts are the enemy of truth."

"The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty."

"Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."