He always pays on the dot…especially if the coinage is…

“[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.”

— Cervantes

“We have come to the church, Sancho.”

— Cervantes

“The road is always better than the inn.”

— Cervantes

“What makes thou there, thou fierce, thou cruel basilisk of these mountains! comes thou to see whether the wounds of this murdered wretch will…

— Cervantes

“Qui se humilliat exaltabitur”

— Cervantes

“I come not, Ambrosia for any of the purposes thou hast named," replied Marcela, "but to defend myself and to prove how unreasonable are…

— Cervantes

“By the Street of By and By you arrive at the House of Never”

— Cervantes

Hat which cost little is less valued.

— Cervantes

“Poetry is like an innocent young maiden who is extremely beautiful, and whom many other maidens, who are the other fields of knowledge, are…

— Cervantes

“He who sings scares away his woes.”

— Cervantes

“Art does not surpass nature but perfects it.”

— Cervantes

“Donde una puerta se cierra, otra se abre "Where a door is closed, another is opened" ~ Don Quixote de la Mancha”

— Cervantes

“Faint heart never won fair maiden”

— Cervantes

“I came to the gate, where some dozen or so of devils were playing tennis . . . in their hands they held rackets…

— Cervantes

“For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing. Only we two are…

— Cervantes