“No man is more than another unless he does more than another.”
Source: Don Quixote
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Famous Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
“There's no sauce in the world like hunger.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
“Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.”
Source: Don Quixote
Source: Don Quixote
Source: Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
“Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.”
Source: Don Quixote
“The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.”
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
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Source: Don Quixote
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell
“A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.”
Source: Don Quixote
“One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.”
Source: The Portable Cervantes
“They must needs go whom the Devil drives.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Every production must resemble its author.”
Source: Don Quixote
Source: Don Quixote
“Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha,3
“God who gives the wound gives the salve.”
Source: Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition
“We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.”
Source: Don Quixote
“When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.”
Source: Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.
“Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.”
Source: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
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
“Everything disturbs an absent lover.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
“Necessity urges desperate measures.”
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“Little said is soon amended.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux
“I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.”
Source: Don Quixote
Source: Don Quixote
Source: Don Quixote
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha,5
“The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.”
Source: Don Quixote
Source: Don Quixote
“Virtue is the truest nobility.”
Source: THE HISTORY Of the RENOWNED Don QUIXOTE De la MANCHA.
“A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.”