“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is so crazy that he is sure no author could have invented him” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“I wanted only to offer it to you plain and bare, unadorned by a prologue or the endless catalogue of sonnets, epigrams… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“He robbed him of a great deal of his natural force, and so do all those who try to turn books written… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“A good joke, that!" returned Don Quixote. "Books that have been printed with the king's licence, and with the approbation of those… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Let's turn now to the citation of authors, found in other books and missing in yours. The solution to this is very… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“To give expression to humour, and write in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses. The cleverest character in comedy… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Rocinante felt the desire to pleasure himself with the ladies, and as soon as he picked up their scent he abandoned his natural ways… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“If all, or almost all, the plays that are popular now, imaginative works as well as historical ones, are known to be nonsense and… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“he who does not know how to take advantage of luck when it comes to him, has no right to complain if it gives… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Ésa es natural condición de mujeres -dijo don Quijote-: desdeñar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece. Pasa adelante, Sancho.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“…que hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“But what made him still more fortunate, as he said himself, was having a daughter of such exceeding beauty, rare intelligence, gracefulness, and virtue,… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
