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- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Stephen Leacock
- In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of… — Lytton Strachey
- Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought… — James Thurber