Top 39 Cervantes Quixote Quotes

#1. There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#2. the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.

Aubrey F.G. Bell

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#3. Now, tell me which is the greater deed, raising a dead man or killing a giant?" "The answer is self-evident," responded Don Quixote. "It is greater to raise a dead man.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#4. I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.

Marlen Esparza

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#5. He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Oscar Wilde

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#6. 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 Saavedra

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#7. As soon as Don Quixote had read the inscription on the parchment he perceived clearly that it referred to the disenchantment of Dulcinea, and returning hearty thanks to heaven that he

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#8. I know who I am," said Don Quixote, "and who I may be, if I choose: not only those I have mentioned but all the Twelve Peers of France and the Nine Worthies as well; for the exploits of all of them together, or separately, cannot compare with mine.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#9. But I have heard it said," said Don Quixote, "that troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#10. I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#11. For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#12. If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.

Marilyn Manson

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#13. True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice .

Sathya Sai Baba

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#14. That is the nature of women," said Don Quixote. "They reject the man who loves them and love the man who despises them.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#15. Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what his commentators think he means?

W. Somerset Maugham

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#16. Do you mean to say that the story is finished?" said Don Quixote. "As finished as my mother," said Sancho.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#17. All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#18. Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.

Miguel De Cervantes

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#19. Your grace, come back, Senor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep !

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#20. Open thine arms and receive, too, thy son Don Quixote, who, if he comes vanquished by the arm of another, comes victor over himself, which, as he himself has told me, is the greatest victory anyone can desire.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#21. I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

Lord Byron

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#22. I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.

William Henry Vanderbilt

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#23. We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

Maya Angelou

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#24. She couldn't believe all their happiness had nearly been taken away from them.

Vicky Pattison

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#25. If the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure justice, and by this calculation third becomes second, and the first becomes third ...

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#26. I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings!

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#27. After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#28. Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe ...

Voltaire

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#29. Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.

Eduard Limonov

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#30. But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back. Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#31. I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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#32. Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

Boyd K. Packer

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#33. Curiosity was stronger than caution.

George R R Martin

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#34. There is a remedy for everything except death, responded Don Quixote,

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#35. While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability.

Martin Amis

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#36. the french ambassador to spain, meeting cervantes,congratulated him on the great success and reputation gained by his "don quixote"; whereupon the author whispered in his ear: "had it not been for the inquisition, i should have made my book much more entertaining.

Isaac D'Israeli

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#37. Vagabond knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#38. ...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.
And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her.

Ettore Scola

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#39. They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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