Faint heart never won fair maiden

“It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.”

— Knight of the woeful countenance

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

— Lord Byron

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor -…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

“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

Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism."…

— Stephen Leacock

“[He] looked exactly like Michael's idea of Don Quixote, 'the luminary and mirror of all knight-errantry', and for that gentle and melancholy knight Michael…

— Elizabeth Goudge

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

— Lord Byron

“Marcela: Hízome el cielo, según vosotros decís, hermosa, y de tal manera, que, sin ser poderosos a otra cosa, a que me améis os…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“No hay memoria a quien el tiempo no acabe, ni dolor que muerte no le consuma.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“It was a hard life, a life of poverty, of incessant struggle, of toil ill paid, of disappointment, but Cervantes carried within himself the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes

— Miguel de Cervantes

“O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave, La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star! To thee I say that if the peerless…

— Cervantes

“Hell,” he finished absurdly. “Because—” He produced a twenty-peso note and laid it on the table. “I like it,” he called to them, through…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From Dalí and El Greco, From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.' He was born before Cervantes.”

— Dejan Stojanovic