Miguel de Cervantes Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The eyes those silent tongues of love.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Eye, Tongue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.92

• Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Eye, Tongue, Caution

• Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fear, Halloween, Eye

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.152, Collector's Library

• Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  God, Eye, Justice

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1749). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell”, p.59

• It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Eye, Responsibility, Knights

• A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Witty, Children, Clever

  Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman (2009). “Don Quixote”, p.3, Harper Collins

• I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Eye, Two, Mad

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