240 quotes
I shall be as secret as the grave.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
I think it a very happy accident.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
There's no love lost between us.
A close mouth catches no flies.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
In the night all cats are gray.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
The pot calls the kettle black.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
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?
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Traveling through different countries and communicating with different peoples makes men wise.
Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Novels) (1613)
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
He ... got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
My honor is dearer to me than my life.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Earned with the sweat of my brows.
He had a face like a benediction.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
Patience and shuffle the cards.