Miguel de Cervantes: Doing

Miguel de Cervantes was Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 54.

“Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 32.

“Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.

“A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter

“I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 23.

“She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.

“In some village in La Mancha, whose name I do not care to recall, there dwelt not so long ago a gentleman of the type wont to keep an unused lance, an old shield, a skinny old horse, and a greyhound for racing.”

Miguel de Cervantes

En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no hace mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 1.

“There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 3.