it is better to have red a great work of another culture…

“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

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.

— Slavoj Žižek

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with…

— Diana Vreeland

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

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

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

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Faint heart never won fair maiden”

— Cervantes

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

— 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

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

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

— Lord Byron

“[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

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

— Knight of the woeful countenance