Woman is made of fragile glass;but do not put her to the testto see if she will break,for that might come to pass.She is too apt to shatter,and wisdom is surely endedif what can ne'er be mendedis put...
When a rich man is hurt, his wail goeth heavens high. (Sancho Panza)
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
To give expression to humour, and write in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses. The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a f...
Thy enterprises speed, Didst thou the light mid Libya's sands Or Jaca's rocks first see?
This is my friend Durandarte, flower and mirror of the true lovers and valiant knights of his time. He is held enchanted here, as I myself and many others are, by that French enchanter Merlin, who, th...
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that
The dogs are barking Quixote. A sign we move forward Sancho, a sign we move forward.
Teneos, señores, teneos, que no es razón toméis venganza de los agravios que el amor nos hace; y advertid que el amor y la guerra son una misma cosa, y así como en la guerra es cosa lícita y acostumbr...
Solo los médicos nos pueden matar y nos matan sin temor y a pie quedo, sin desenvainar otra espada que la de un récipe.
So I pretended humility whenever I wanted to enter the service of a household, having first cased the place to ascertain that it could maintain and accommodate a large dog. Then I parked myself by the...
Senor, sorrows were made not for animals but for men; but if men feel them too much, they turn into animals...
Sancho, when a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it argues one of two things; either that he was the son of exceedingly mean and lowly parents, or that he himself was so incorrigible and i...
Sancho, just as you want people to believe what you have seen in the sky, I want you to believe what I saw in the Cave of Montesinos. And that is all I have to say.
Procurad también que, leyendo vuestra historia, el melancólico se mueva a risa, el risueño la acreciente, el simple no se enfade, el discreto se admire de la invención, el grave no la desprecie, ni el...
Preguntáronle a Julio César, aquel valeroso emperador romano, cuál era la mejor muerte: respondió que la impensada, la de repente y no prevista;
Porque ya se sabe que la hermosura de algunas mujeres tiene días y sazones, y requiere accidentes para diminuirse o acrecentarse; y es natural cosa que las pasiones del ánimo la levanten o abajen, pue...
Porque has de saber que en los reinos y provincias nuevamente conquistados nunca están tan quietos los ánimos de sus naturales, ni tan de parte del nuevo señor que no se tengan temor de que han de hac...
Poco desviados de allí hicieron alto estos tres carros, y cesó el enfadoso ruido de sus ruedas, y luego se oyó otro, no ruidoXVIII, sino un son de una suave y concertada música formado, con que Sancho...