Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 35.
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Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 4.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 19.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 3.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 53.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 2.
“No te asotiles tanto, que te despuntarás…”
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
La Gitanilla (The Little Gypsy) (c. 1590–1612; published 1613)
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 57.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 22.
to make a world
de todos ha de haber en el mundo (literally, “There must be of all [types] in the world”)
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV, Ch. 6 / El ingenioso caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha, Capítulo VI
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 23.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 10.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 8.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 7.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 21.
“Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 8.
“I shall be as secret as the grave.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV, Ch. 62.
“What a man has, so much he is sure of.”
Variant: What a man has, so much he is sure of.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.
“I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter, Ch. 9.
Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Prologue
“My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.”
La Gitanilla (The Little Gypsy) (c. 1590–1612; published 1613)
“Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.”
La Gitanilla (The Little Gypsy) (c. 1590–1612; published 1613)
“The pot calls the kettle black.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV, Ch. 43.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part 2: Chapter LV
“I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
“By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 4.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 7.
“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 74.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV, Ch. 74.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 3.
“An honest man's word is as good as his bond.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV, Ch. 34.
“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“Let us make hay while the sun shines.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.
“Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
“It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 1.
“Can we ever have too much of a good thing?”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 6.
“Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.”
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
“I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
“You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Prologue
“Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 8.
“Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 8.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
“Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV, Ch. 73.
“Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
“Spare your breath to cool your porridge.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 5.
“Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.”
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
“You can see farther into a millstone than he.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 28.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
