The 25 Best Don Quixote Quotes
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Don Quixote Quotes

25 of the best book quotes from Don Quixote
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To surrender dreams — this may be madness.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
madness
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dreams
concepts
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Take 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.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Sancho Panza
character
life
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death
concepts
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
honor
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war
concepts
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The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
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character
concept
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The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
nonsense
concept
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
love
concept
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Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
destiny
concept
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He who’s down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
sleeping
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laziness
concepts
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
hunger
concept
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The knight’s sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
care
concept
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Perhaps to be too practical is madness.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
madness
concept
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Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
madness
concept
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
madness
concept
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
hoping
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love
concepts
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The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
truth
concept
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Until death it is all life.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
death
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life
concepts
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
hardship and misfortunes
concept
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“There is no book so bad but it has something good in it.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
The Bachelor
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Don Quixote
characters
books
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goodness
concepts
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“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
craziness
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sleeping
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reading
concepts
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
good and evil
concept
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It’s up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they’re going well.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
happiness
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bravery
concepts
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For 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.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
good and evil
concept
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Cardenio
character
the mind
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women
concepts
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
humor
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intelligence
concepts
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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Sanson
character
history
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writing
concepts

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