Quixote Quotes

40 quotes by 35 authors

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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
When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished… — Georges Bernanos
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that… — Dominic Chianese
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. — David Berlinski
Don Quixote â€” I read that every year, as some do the Bible. — William Faulkner
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.Â I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to… — Anais Nin
There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change… — James E. Faust
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has… — Ambrose Bierce
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
Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw.… — Bernie Siegel
A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you… — Thomas Beecham
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody… — Carlos Fuentes
The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight… — Billy Corgan
Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the… — Miguel de Cervantes
While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote. — Mason Cooley
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published. — Jay McInerney
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently. — Thomas Sydenham
I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in… — Jonathan Ames
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. — James Russell Lowell

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