“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The first time I got paid as an actor was for 'Man of La Mancha.' So 'Don Quixote' has always been a… — Jason Winston George Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York. — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
“Donde una puerta se cierra, otra se abre "Where a door is closed, another is opened" ~ Don Quixote de la Mancha” — Cervantes Copy Share Image
Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I also have this kind of fascination with Don Quixote, kind of like wanting something you're not going to get. I like… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I would speak more politely if I were you," replied Don Quixote; "is it the way of this country to address knights-errant… — Miguel De Cervantes Copy Share Image
“He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the… — Joe Darion Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
“Go get your gun because God won't show. He sent a poet instead. The Don Quixote of the ICU. Quite impressive for… — Keith Buckley Copy Share Image
“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits,… — Martin Amis (Author Copy Share Image
If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When… — Milan Kundera 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
Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“And the first thing I have got to say is, that for my own part I hold my master Don Quixote to… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“At this point they came in sight of thirty forty windmills that there are on plain, and as soon as Don Quixote… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote took windmills for giants and sheep for armies; d'Artagnan took every smile for an insult and every glance for a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. […] If the same… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If you look into your own mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza? Almost certainly you are both. There is… — George Orwel 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
“today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it is almost an ordeal, which would make us… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.” — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school. — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no more than another, unless he does more than another.” — Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel Copy Share Image
“Within every one of us there lives both a Don Quixote and a Sancho Panza to whom we hearken by turns; and… — Anatole France 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