“In short, to sum up all in a few words, or in a single one, I may tell you I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance;' for though self-praise is degrading, I… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Believe me, fair lady, you may call yourself fortunate in having in this castle of yours sheltered my person, which is such that if I do not myself praise it, it is because of what is commonly said, that self-praise… — 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
