Best Quixote Quotes
40 Quixote quotes by 35 unique authors
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To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and…
— Jodi Picoult
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All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning…
— Thomas Hardy
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Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.
— Stanislaw Lem
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There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the…
— Christopher Lee
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Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual,…
— David Guterson
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Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream.
— Jim Murray
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If you look into your own mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza? Almost certainly you are both. There is one part of…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Quixote Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 40 Quixote Quotes, led by these top contributors: