Quotes of: Quixote Keyword

I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.

Meditations on Quixote

I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

Sal Albanese

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.

Monsignor Quixote

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

Gioconda Belli

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

Jay McInerney

...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.

Don Quixote

La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos.

Don Quixote

After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.

Don Quixote

Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.

Dominic Chianese

Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From Dalí and El Greco, From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.' He was born before Cervantes.

Dejan Stojanovic

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

Jonathan Ames

Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.

Darkness Visible: Inside the World of Philip Pullman

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

Don Quixote

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

Don Quixote

...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads

Don Quixote

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Monsignor Quixote

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

Christopher Lee