Don Quixote
A source page for quotes linked to Miguel de Cervantes.
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“Facts, my dear Sancho, are the enemy of truth.”
Source: Dom Quixote de La Mancha
Source: Don Quixote - Volume 1: By Miguel de Cervantes - Illustrated
Source: Don Quixote
Source: Don Quijote
“La buena y verdadera amistad no puede ni debe ser sospechosa de nada.”
“...porque siempre las desdichas persiguen al buen ingenio.”
Source: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha
Source: Don Quixote
Source: Don Quixote
“You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.”
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: The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“A stout heart breaks bad luck.”
Source: Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition
“Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.”
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
“Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.”
Source: The History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha,1
“The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.”
“Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.”
“I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.”
“There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.”
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.”
“The wicked are always ungrateful.”
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
“They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.”
Source: Don Quixote
“A man prepared has half fought the battle.”
Source: Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote
“Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.”
Source: The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“Dine on little, and sup on less.”
Source: Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote
“The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.”
“It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“When you are at Rome, do as you see.”
Source: Sancho Panza's Proverbs, and others which occur in Don Quixote; with a aliteral English translation, notes, and an introduction by Ulick Ralph Burke
“Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.”
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Source: Don Quixote
“All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.”
Source: Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote
“Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.”
“My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Good Christians should never avenge injuries.”
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)
“Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“All is not gold that glisters.”
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: Don Quixote
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?”