Don Quixote Quotes

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.

The knight’s sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.

“There is no book so bad but it has something good in it.”

Be not a meddler; no affair of thine the life thy neighbours lead:

Then would my heavy sorrow turn to joy; none would I envy, all would envy me, And happiness be mine without alloy.

“the reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty;”

“it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name”

“I looked for no less, my lord, from your High Magnificence,”

and I shall find you though you should lie closer than a lizard.

The essential point is that without seeing her you must believe, confess, affirm, swear, and defend it;

“but ye must pay for the blasphemy ye have uttered against beauty like that of my lady.”

“If thou wert a knight, as thou art none, I should have already chastised thy folly and rashness, miserable creature.”

“Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes; for this is righteous warfare, and it is God’s good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth.”

“Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.”

Moreover, it is my belief that all knights-errant have not ladies to commend themselves to, for they are not all in love.”

“Fortune always leaves a door open in adversity in order to bring relief to it,”