Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market.

Workers and peasants of Brooklyn, all I believed in was a lie.

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

In the world of 'Power,' no good deed goes unpunished. I don't really look at it as karma in the world of 'Power.' Whenever any character thinks they're on safe ground, they get the world pulled up from under them.

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.

Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

All that is gold does not glitter.

Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."