“He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“But what distressed him greatly was not having another hermit there to confess him and to receive consolation from; and so he… — 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
“What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.” — 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
“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
