| 72 Famous Quotes by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
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“One swallow alone does not make the summer.
[Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]”
Swallows Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, ch. XIII)
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“You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.”
Birds Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, ch. IV)
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“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”
Birds Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LXXIV)
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“Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
[Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]”
Heart Quotes Source: Don Quixote (II, 70)
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“My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as
marble to retain.”
Heart Quotes Source: The Little Gypsy
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“All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.
[Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).]”
Eating Quotes Source: Don Quixote (ch. II, 13)
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“The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
[Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]”
Eating Quotes Source: Don Quixote (ch. II, 47)
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“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
Eating Quotes Source: Don Quixote (ch. XXIV)
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“He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was
conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the
road, where he also espied an Inn. Sancho positively maintained
it was an Inn, and his master that it was a castle; and the
dispute lasted so long that they arrived there before it was
determined.”
Inns Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, ch. XV)
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“He who sings frightens away his ills.
[Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]”
Singing Quotes Source: Don Quixote (I, 22)
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“You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in
the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.”
Ability Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. XI)
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“As ill-luck would have it.”
Luck Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. II)
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“I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.”
Luck Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. II)
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“Make hay while the sun shines.”
Sun Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. 11)
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“The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.”
Sun Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. 11)
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“But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the
countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his
back.”
Forgetfulness Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)
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“Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.”
Forgetfulness Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)
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“He had a face like a benediction (blessing).”
Faces Quotes Source: Don Quixote (bk. II, pt. I, ch. IV)
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“Thank you for nothing.”
Thankfulness Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. VIII)
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“This peck of troubles.”
Trouble Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LIII)
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“Here is the devil-and-all to pay.”
Devil Quotes Source: Don Quixote (bk. IV, pt. I, ch. X)
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“There's no taking trout with dry breeches.”
Trout Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. 71)
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