“Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell
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Source: The life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In four volumes
“I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.”
Source: The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart
“That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.”
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
Source: Don Quixote
Source: The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
Source: Don Quixote
“By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.”
Source: The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha,1: Being an Accurate, Complete, and Most Entertaining Narrative of the Wonderful Atchievements of that Incomparable Hero and Knight-errant ...
“Every man is the son of his own works.”
Source: The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed
“A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.”
Source: Don Quixote
Source: The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant don Quixote of the Mancha. Tr. by mr. Shelton, and mr. Blunt. Pr. from the quarto ed. of 1620. With cutts from Coypell. And several annotations and amendments, not in any former ed. With a preface
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.”
“An honest man's word is as good as his bond.”
Source: Don Quixote
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell
“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
Source: Don Quixote
“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
Source: The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed
“In the night all cats are gray.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
Source: Don Quixote
“Let us forget and forgive injuries.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell
“A good name is better than bags of gold.”
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“They who lose today may win tomorrow.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha
Source: The Portable Cervantes
“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”
“The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.”
Source: Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition
“Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker”
Source: The Exemplary Novels
“Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha