The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 565

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

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

Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 100

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 164

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them.

Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 295

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

There is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate, nor pain which death doth not put an end to.

Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 325