Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh…

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone…

— Lord Byron

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

“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

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

— Knight of the woeful countenance

“[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

“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

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

“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