Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes

And letting out thirty groans and sixty sighs and one hundred and twenty curses on the head of the person who’d brought him there, he hauled himself to his feet,

And now gay-plumaged birds of all sorts began to warble in the trees, and with their varied and gladsome notes seemed to welcome and salute the fresh morn that was beginning to show the beauty of her...

And so I believe that the sage I have mentioned must, a moment ago, have placed in your thoughts and on your tongue the appellation The Knight of the Sorry Face, which is what I propose to call myself...

And so, having polished up his armor and made the morion over into a closed helmet, and having given himself and his horse a name, he naturally found but one thing lacking still: he must seek out a la...

And this denial added more flames to the fire and more ardor to our desire, because, although it silenced our tongues, it could not silence our pens, which, with greater freedom that tongues, tend to...

And what hast thou gained by the government? asked Ricote. I have gained, said Sancho, the knowledge that I am no good for governing,

Apenas había el rubicundo Apolo tendido por la faz de la ancha y espaciosa tierra las doradas hebras de sus hermosos cabellos, y apenas los pequeños y pintados pajarillos con sus arpadas lenguas había...

As I said, I went back to my dog’s rations, and to the bones that a household serving slave threw me, and even those I had to fight over with two spotted cats. Free and easy, they thought nothing of s...

As soon as Don Quixote had read the inscription on the parchment he perceived clearly that it referred to the disenchantment of Dulcinea, and returning hearty thanks to heaven that he

At last, when his wits were gone beyond repair, he came to conceive the strangest idea that ever occurred to any madman in this world. It now appeared to him fitting and necessary, in order to win a g...

At least, Sancho, I want, because it is necessary, I say I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them w...

At this point they came in sight of thirty forty windmills that there are on plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire, Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could...

At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say...

Bien parece, respondió don Quijote, que no estás cursado en esto de las aventuras: ellos son gigantes; y si tienes miedo, quítate de ahí, y ponte en oración en el espacio que yo voy a entrar con ellos...

By now the night had grown even darker, and a good number of lights began to move through the forest, just as the dry exhalations of the earth move across the sky and to our eyes seem like shooting st...

Cada día se ven cosas nuevas en el mundo: las burlas se vuelven en veras y los burladores se hallan burlados.

Cervantes making an editorial judgment as the purported translator of Don Quixote, Part II (supposedly written by a third party, but actually written by Cervantes himself) as to what not to include. H...

Cosas imposibles pido, pues volver el tiempo a ser después que una vez ha sido, no hay en la tierra poder que a tanto se haya estendido.

Countless were the hares ready skinned and the plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, numberless the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the branches that the air m...

De todo esto ha de carecer mi libro, porque ni tengo qué acotar en el margen, ni qué anotar en el fin, ni menos sé qué autores sigo en él, para ponerlos al principio, como hacen todos, por las letras...