| 72 Famous Quotes by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
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“Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IV)
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“Within a stone's throw of it.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IX)
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“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.”
Proverbs (general) Quotes Source: Don Quixote
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“There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]”
Proverbs (general) Quotes Source: Don Quixote
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“Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]”
Education Quotes Source: Don Quixote (II, 10)
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“Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are
easy to learn.
[Sp., Como el hacer mal viene de natural cosecha, facilmente se
aprende el hacerle.]”
Evil Quotes Source: Coloquio de los Perros
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“Can one desire too much of a good thing?”
Goodness Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. VI)
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“Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the
comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty
and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?”
Comparisons Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. I)
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“A man prepared has half fought the battle.
[Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]”
Progress Quotes Source: Don Quixote (2, 7)
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“I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no
occasion.”
Drinking Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXIII)
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“My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.”
Thought Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)
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“The pen is the tongue of the mind.
[Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]”
Authorship Quotes Source: Don Quixote (V, 16)
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“Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than
discretion.
[Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la locura que la
discrecion.]”
Folly Quotes Source: Don Quixote (II, 13)
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“More knave than fool.”
Folly Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. IV, ch. 2)
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“All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which
only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
[Sp., No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista,
y no rinden la voluntad.]”
Beauty Quotes Source: Don Quixote (II, 6)
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“I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should
have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when
one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there
is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.”
Content Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. IV, ch. XXIII)
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“Patience and shuffle the cards.
[Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]”
Patience Quotes Source: Don Quixote (II, 23)
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“For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and
the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but
very rarely seen.”
Soldiers Quotes Source: Don Quixote (ch. XXXIX)
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“The rather since every man is the son of his own works.
[Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.]”
Work Quotes Source: Don Quixote (bk. I, ch. 4)
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“Earned with the sweat of my brows.”
Work Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. 4)
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“They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
- Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),”
Labor Quotes Source: Don Quixote--Author's Preface
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“I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.”
Senses Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IX)
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“I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread
and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.”
Independence Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. XI)
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“All that glisters is not gold.”
Appearance Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXIII)
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“All will come out in the washing.
[Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]”
Cleanliness Quotes Source: Don Quixote (I, 20)
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