Top 39 Quotes About Sancho
#1. Within every one of us there lives both a Don Quixote and a
Sancho Panza to whom we hearken by turns; and though Sancho
most persuades us, it is Don Quixote that we find ourselves obliged
to admire ...
Anatole France
#2. Countless were the hares ready skinned and the plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, numberless the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the branches that the air might keep them cool. Sancho counted more than sixty wine skins
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#4. 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
#5. Sancho, when a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it argues one of two things; either that he was the son of exceedingly mean and lowly parents, or that he himself was so incorrigible and ill-conditioned that neither good company nor good teaching could make any impression on him.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#6. Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden
#7. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#8. And what hast thou gained by the government?" asked Ricote. "I have gained," said Sancho, "the knowledge that I am no good for governing,
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#10. The Panza is here," said Sancho, before anyone could reply, "and Don Quixotissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duenissima, you may say what you willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any servissimus.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#11. Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.
Nicholas Tucker
#12. All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#13. Between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.
John Dos Passos
#14. It falls to you, Sancho, if you wish to take revenge for the affront committed against your donkey; I shall assist you from here with helpful words and advice.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#15. Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
P. J. O'Rourke
#16. Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.
James Russell Lowell
#17. By God, master," said Sancho, "the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I'll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#18. I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel De Cervantes
#19. Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
Miguel De Cervantes
#20. You should know, Sancho, that a man is not worth more than any other if he does not do more than any other.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#23. As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.
Isabel Allende
#24. At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say ...
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#25. "He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."
Miguel De Cervantes
#27. "From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
Miguel De Cervantes
#28. Sancho, just as you want people to believe what you have seen in the sky, I want you to believe what I saw in the Cave of Montesinos. And that is all I have to say.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#29. Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Franz Kafka
#30. The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.
George Santayana
#31. Mind, Sancho, I do not say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#32. The adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, a team generally regarded as seeking justice, can be compared to the adventures of Rex Stout's two most famous characters, Nero Wolf and Archie Goodwin.
James Grady
#33. God bless the man who first invented sleep! So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it, as the lucky fellow might A close monopoly by patent-right.
John Godfrey Saxe
#34. Front of them all came a wooden castle drawn by four wild men, all clad in ivy and hemp stained green, and looking so natural that they nearly terrified Sancho. On the front of the castle and on each of the
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#35. All I can say,' said Sancho, "is that I perceived a masculine scent about her which must have been because, with so much hard labor, she was sweaty and somewhat slimy." "It
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#37. Take care, Sancho," said Samson; "honours change manners, and perhaps when you find yourself a governor you won't know the mother that bore you.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#38. Sancho tried to amuse him and cheer him up by chatting to him, and said, among other things, what is recorded in the next chapter.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
