Cervantes Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. — Lord Byron
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of… — Lord Byron
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. — Leonardo Sciascia
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Nathaniel Parker
Cervantes said the journey's better than the end. Practices, to me, were the journey. — John Wooden
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes — Miguel de Cervantes
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If… — Stephen Leacock
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare… — Lytton Strachey
Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio,… — James Thurber
If on a friendâ€™s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him… — Alexander Theroux
Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they… — Antonio Munoz Molina
At night the passion came, Like the fierce fiend of a distempered dream, And shook him from his rest, and led him forth Into the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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