Quotes About Cervantes

Volume 2 will begin with Cervantes and end with the most interesting novel of 2012.

Und so kam es, dass der Wein, der die Menschen ehrlich macht, wenn sie es am wenigsten brauchen, und ihnen Mut gibt, wenn sie besser feige blieben, Cervantes dazu brachte, ihnen die Geschichte in der Geschichte zu erzählen, das, was Mörder und Verrückte die Wahrheit nennen.

Hunger, unlike Spaniards, has no pride and is brimming with perseverance,' suggested Cervantes.

The eyes those silent tongues of love. —CERVANTES

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love: there is a kind of it which pleases only the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them.

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that's been brewing since Cervantes.

Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.

Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft.

'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

There is no limit to a woman's intelligence provided she is not required to be coherent. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.