Books Quote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Download Open image ““Don Quixote is so crazy that he is sure no author could have invented him”” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novelist teaches the reader… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“I'm sure Mr da Quirm draws lovely pictures, but I for one would need a little more evidence of his amazing genius before we… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things… — Terry Pratchett 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
