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Don Quixote Quotes
25 of the best book quotes from Don Quixote
#1
To surrender dreams — this may be madness.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concepts
madness
dreams
#2
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.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
character
Sancho Panza
concepts
life
death
#3
The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concepts
war
Honor
#4
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concept
character
#5
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concept
nonsense
#6
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concept
love
#7
Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
character
Quixote
concept
destiny
#8
He who’s down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concepts
laziness
sleeping
#9
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concept
hunger
#10
The knight’s sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
character
Quixote
concept
care
#11
Perhaps to be too practical is madness.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concept
madness
#12
Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concept
madness
#13
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concept
madness
#14
For hope is always born at the same time as love.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concepts
hoping
love
#15
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concept
truth
#16
Until death it is all life.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concepts
life
death
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#17
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
character
Quixote
concept
Hardship and Misfortunes
#18
“There is no book so bad but it has something good in it.”
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
characters
Quixote
The Bachelor
concepts
goodness
books
#19
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concepts
Craziness
reading
sleeping
#20
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concept
Good and Evil
#21
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.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concepts
happiness
bravery
#22
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.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
character
Quixote
concept
Good and Evil
#23
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
character
Cardenio
concepts
the mind
women
#24
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
concepts
intelligence
humor
#25
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian.
author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
book
Don Quixote
character
Sanson
concepts
writing
history
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