Don Juan Quotes

“Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan”

“A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth; His parents ne’er agreed except in doting Upon the most unquiet imp on earth”

“Dying intestate, Jan was sole heir To a chancery suit, and messuages, and lands, Which, with a long minority and care, Promised to turn out well in proper hands”

“Her sixth, to stab herself; her seventh, to sentence The lash to Baba: —but her grand resource Was to sit down again, and cry—of course”

“So first there was a generous emulation, And then there was a general competition, To undertake the orphan’s education”

“The Lady Adeline resolved to take Such measures as she thought might best impede The farther progress of this sad mistake.”

“His youth and features favoured the disguise, And should you ask how she, a Sultan’s bride, Could risk or compass such strange phantasies, This I must leave sultanas to decide.”

“It is enough that Fortune found him flush Of Youth, and Vigour, Beauty, and those things Which for an instant clip Enjoyment’s wings.”

“The favour of the Empress was agreeable; And though the duty waxed a little hard, Young people at his time of life should be able To come off handsomely in that regard.”

“Suwarrow, who had small regard for tears, And not much sympathy for blood ”

“In the case our Lord the King should go to war again, He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress—or a nunnery”

“For a young gentleman’s fit education, Though she was far from that leap year, whose leap, In female dates, strikes Time all of a heap”

“One monstrous diamond […] Bestowed upon him, as the public learned; And, to say truth, it had been fairly earned”