We leave you the best phrases of Don Quixote, the most important novel in Spanish literature in particular and one of the most important in the history of literature worldwide. It is estimated that more than 400 million copies have been sold worldwide since its publication.
Its first part was published in 1605 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra under the name of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. In 1615 its second part was published.
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-In a place in La Mancha whose name I don't want to remember.
-Never sequels were good.
-Know Sancho that he is not one man more than another but does more than another.
-Trust time, which tends to give sweet solutions to many bitter difficulties.
-Whoever lives well preaches.
-The wind cannot be prevented, but you have to know how to make mills.
-Love and desire are two different things; not everything that is loved is desired, nor everything that is desired is loved.
-As you have no experience in the things of the world, everything that has some difficulty seems impossible to you.
-There is no better sauce than hunger.
-He who falls today can get up tomorrow.
-If you stop wishing, you will be the richest man.
-The value is in that intermediate place between cowardice and recklessness.
-Unless it is death, there is a remedy for everything.
-Eat little and dinner less, that the health of the whole body is forged in the stomach office.
-Mistress, not what you are, but what you will be.
-Changing the world, friend Sancho, is neither utopia nor madness, it is justice.
-Set your eyes on who you are, know yourself, that is the most difficult knowledge you can imagine.
-There is no saying that is not true, because all are children of experience, the mother of all sciences.
-What madness or nonsense leads me to name the faults of others, having so much to comment on my own?
- They never lived cruelty and bravery well.
-The dogs bark Sancho, then we ride.
-He who is about to die always speaks the truth.
-He who walks a lot and reads a lot, sees a lot and knows a lot.
-I am the competent Don Quixote de la Macha, the undoer of injustices and evils.
-Credit should be given to the works not to the words.
-Running where the brave did not dare, reach the unreachable star. Here is my destiny.
-Love can be given without jealousy, but not without fear.
-Where there is a lot of love, there is usually not a lot of ease.
-O envy, you are the root of infinite evils and woodworm of virtues!
-When you enter the heart of a friend, no matter what place you occupy, the important thing is that you never leave it.
"Jealousy, knife of the strongest hopes!"
-Whoever humbles himself, God exalts him.
-Good doing never lacks reward.
-Each one is just as God made him, and even worse many times.
- Marriage of relatives, has a thousand inconveniences.
-When we are not in one, we are in the other.
-A company is usually a relief from miseries.
-Where one door closes, another opens.
-Love never made any coward.
-The works of charity that are done lukewarm and lazily, have no merit or are worth nothing.
-True friendships cannot be disturbed.
-Never the advice of a poor person, no matter how good, is admitted.
-Don't give importance to the result, value the effort.
-Each one is the son of his works.
-There is no book so bad that it does not have something good.
-Of the greatest sins that man commits, pride is the greatest, some say, but ungratefulness is greater, I say.
-He who does not know how to enjoy happiness when it arrives, should not complain when it passes.
-A confidence has both confidence and indiscretion.
-The true and good friendship should not and cannot be suspected of anything.
-The self-praise debases.
-It belongs to well-born people, to be grateful for the benefit they receive.
-The pen is the language of the mind.
-For diseases of the soul, repentance is the best cure.
-In the wash everything comes out.
-The misfortunes of heaven cannot be remedied with wealth.
-Doing good to villains is like pouring water into the sea.
-In courtesies it is better to sin for more than for less.
-Pudor is the charm that doubles the charms of beauty.
-That job that does not feed its owner is not worth two beans.
-Love is the desire for beauty.
-It is better to be admired by the few wise men than to be mocked by the many fools.
-The greatness of a king shines more in his mercy than in his justice.
-The decomposed spirits are composed by music, and also alleviates the works that are born of the spirit.
-There is no memory that time does not end, nor pain that death does not consume.
- You do not have to be, neither always rigorous, nor always soft.
-With sleep, be moderate, because whoever does not get up early with the Sun, does not enjoy the day.
- Sadness is not typical of beasts but of men, but if men feel them too much they become beasts.
-A fool is, very fool, the one who, discovering a secret to another, urges him to shut him up.
-In the art of seamanship the simplest sailor knows more than the most learned man in the world.
-There is no better foundation and better ditch than money.
-The wit of men is enlivened by seeing a lot and by reading a lot.
-The year that is abundant in poetry, it is usually also in hunger.
- The stain on the face is better than the pain in the heart.
-Never displeases a woman who falls in love with her.
-Never or very seldom is an ambition achieved without harming others.
-One of the greatest temptations that the devil puts in the life of man is to write a book, which can give him both fame and money.
-Where the truth is, there is God.
-The language resides the greatest damage to human life.
-There can be no grace where there is no discretion
-It seems that gypsies and gypsies only came into the world to be thieves.
-The fool knows more at home than the wise man in someone else's.
-The revenge of jealousy is always foolish.
-In poetry, you can be famous if you are guided more by the views of others than by your own.
-It is my opinion and experience teaches it, that a woman's tears can soften a stone.
-If something is gained, nothing is lost.
-My thoughts raced after a distraction.
-Weapons require spirit like letters.
- Pride has a daughter and it is ingratitude.
-Prudence is the highest of virtues.
-You never get to the plaza del calle del ya voy.
-And so from how much he read and how little he slept, his brain dried up.
-The one they call fortune around there, know that she is a fickle and drunk woman, and above all blind, that she does not know what she is doing, nor does she know who she is taking down.
-Oh memory, mortal enemy of my rest!
-The one who retires does not flee.
-Finally, because of so little sleep and a lot of reading, his brain dried up and he left his mind indisputably.
-The truth can be stretched, but it has the peculiarity of never breaking and always rising above lies.
-I don't see what my butt has to do with charms.
-I'm sure that now, there must be good souls, even in hell itself.
-Thank heaven for the favor you grant me. It offers me the opportunity to fulfill the responsibility that I have assumed to assume and reap the fruits of my ambition.
-If I had to prove it to you: What merit would you have in confessing such a manifest truth? You must without seeing it believe it, confess it, affirm it, swear it and defend it.
-I hope you trust the justice of the cause that I profess.
-I do not see the way in which you could correct the faults since you have changed me from correct to incorrect leaving me on the way with a broken leg.
-Those who have been told the truth should not be considered as those who have been in any way despised.
-Even Aristotle himself could not have understood if he had come back to life only for this purpose.
-I am a lazy person par excellence, too lazy to look for authors who say what I already know how to say without your help.
-The traitor allows his tears to confess by his words.
-How is it that someone can deny the weight of the truth?
-It seems pretty clear to me that you don't really know me, or that I really don't know you.
-I know who I am and what I can be since my achievements exceed everything they have done together and each one of them on their own merits.
-Blessed the man who conceived the dream.
-It would not be so diabolical if I have to cure the problems of the world if I become the scapegoat of all.
-Now I'm in my right mind. Free from the confused darkness of ignorance, produced by my bitter reading of those fearsome chivalric books.
- Too much sense can be a sign of madness.
-There is no such thing as a book so bad that it does not have something good in it.
-Fate is capable of guiding our fortunes more prosperously than we could ever have imagined.
-Good and evil should not last forever. While the evil has lasted for a long time, the good must be near.
-In a play, the most cunning character is the fool, because the man who longs to appear simple, definitely cannot be a simple fool.
-No jewel on the planet will be bought with the honor and virtue of a woman.
-Now, my reason is free and clear, allowing me to free myself from the dark shadows of ignorance.
-The modesty becomes the fair, and also the laughter that has little cause becomes great nonsense.
-After cleaning his armor and having given his horse a name, he realized that all he had to do was find a lady to love.
-If the governor leaves the office, they say he is a thief. If a poor man leaves the office, they say he is an idiot and a fool.
-Let your sin be your punishment and that it be an end for you.
-Everything will be done well and perhaps better than imagined. The leaf of a tree does not move without the will of God.
-Preserve a safe conscience and allow people to say what they want. Trying to silence the backbiting tongues is like putting gates in open fields.
-Never ask as a favor anything you can take by force.
-A clear escape is better than the prayers of many good men.
-What covers you, ends up discovering you.
-It does not affect what some will say, because if not, you would never have done it.
-One can bind the winds like the tongues of liars.
"Lie in front of me, base clown!"
-By the sun that shines on us, by the God who governs us, I will make you an end and I will ruin you.
-I just have to send and he will fulfill me. And as you have sworn to me by order of a knight that I have received, I release you and guarantee payment.
-In the shadow of the pretended disabled, there are false wounds, the arms of thieves and drunks come particularly very healthy.
-With these few remains of Latin and things like that, you may be taken for a lawyer who is honorable and profitable these days.
-Some times, when a father has an ugly and rude son, the love that emanates from him covers his eyes so much that he does not see his defects.
-They say that becoming a poet is an incurable and infectious disease.
-How is it feasible that things so trivial and easy to amend can have the power to perplex and absorb an intelligence as mature as yours and so ready to disrupt and overcome much greater difficulties?
-Just become honey and the flies will suck you.
-Love begins in the path of your desires, and at the same moment completes it and ends it.
-Ah, now I understand you Sancho! Get me out of this salting room, because it's dirty enough in here!
-I mean that the religious, with all peace and tranquility, ask heaven for the good of the earth, but the soldiers and knights put into execution what they ask, defending it with the courage of our arms and the edges of our sword.
-Virtue is so powerful that by itself, despite all the necromancy that its first inventor Zoroastes knew, it will win out of all trance and give light to the world as the sun from heaven.