Don Quixote Quotes
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There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
— Jay McInerney
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
— Thomas Sydenham
There is a remedy for everything except death, responded Don Quixote,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.
— Nicholas Tucker
Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.
— Stanislaw Lem
My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
Don Quixote - I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
— William Faulkner
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
— Arthur Smith
But I have heard it said," said Don Quixote, "that troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.
— Jonathan Ames
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
What one loses today one may gain tomorrow.
— Don Quixote
Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
— Hugh Kingsmill
While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
— Mason Cooley
Between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.
— John Dos Passos
I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
— Sal Albanese
Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
— Graham Greene
I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings!
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Do you mean to say that the story is finished?" said Don Quixote. "As finished as my mother," said Sancho.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
She left my world spinninglike windmills
on the plains of la Mancha. — Stephen Brooke
Your grace, come back, Senor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep !
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
I also have this kind of fascination with Don Quixote, kind of like wanting something you're not going to get. I like that a lot.
— Sean William Scott
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— W. H. Auden
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
— James Russell Lowell
But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.
— Ha Jin
After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Vagabond knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability.
— Martin Amis
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote; La Mancha is not just geography;
It is our personal territory
Terra Nostra. — Dejan Stojanovic
Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.
— Mitch Leigh
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
— George Bernard Shaw
That is the nature of women," said Don Quixote. "They reject the man who loves them and love the man who despises them.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra