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Don Quixote Quotes
25 of the best book quotes from Don Quixote
- #1To surrender dreams — this may be madness.
- #2Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.
- #3The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
- #4The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
- #5The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
- #6There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
- #7Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.
- #8He who’s down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
- #9Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
- #10The knight’s sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.
- #11Perhaps to be too practical is madness.
- #12Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
- #13When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
- #14For hope is always born at the same time as love.
- #15The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
- #16
Don Quixote
Written by Jennifer Adams & illustrated by Alison Oliver
- #17Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
- #18“There is no book so bad but it has something good in it.”
- #19“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
- #20Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
- #21It’s up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they’re going well.
- #22For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
- #23What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
- #24Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
- #25It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian.
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