“It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.” — Knight of the woeful countenance Copy Share Image
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“Marcela: Hízome el cielo, según vosotros decís, hermosa, y de tal manera, que, sin ser poderosos a otra cosa, a que me… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“[He] looked exactly like Michael's idea of Don Quixote, 'the luminary and mirror of all knight-errantry', and for that gentle and melancholy… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy, Hafez, Steinbeck and Cervantes were no longer her friends.” — Soroosh Shahrivar Copy Share Image
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“No hay memoria a quien el tiempo no acabe, ni dolor que muerte no le consuma.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From Dalí and El Greco, From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.' He was born before Cervantes.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.” — Henry Gratton Doyle Copy Share Image
“It was a hard life, a life of poverty, of incessant struggle, of toil ill paid, of disappointment, but Cervantes carried within… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Hell,” he finished absurdly. “Because—” He produced a twenty-peso note and laid it on the table. “I like it,” he called to… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave, La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star! To thee I say that if… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
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