Miguel de Cervantes citations célèbres
Miguel de Cervantes Citations
Don Quichotte
Don Quichotte
Don Quichotte
“[…] il sera bon de donner du temps au temps, […]”
Don Quichotte
Don Quichotte
Miguel de Cervantes: Citations en anglais
Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam).
“In the night all cats are gray.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
“Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I'll stick.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 7.
“Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 30.
“Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 4.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.
“Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 8.
“Sing away sorrow, cast away care.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 8.
“A good name is better than riches.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
“I will take my corporal oath on it.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 10.
“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 54.
“Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 10.
“For if he like a madman lived,
At least he like a wise one died.”
Don Quixote's epitaph
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV
“Well, now, there's a remedy for everything except death.”
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 13.
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 10.
“Plain as the nose on a man's face.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 8.
“Here is the devil-and-all to pay.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 10.
“Let every man mind his own business.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 8.
“When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?"”
there is no answer to be made.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.
“Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 32.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 3.
“That's the nature of women … not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
“Ready to split his sides with laughing.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 13.
“He had a face like a benediction.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 6.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 5.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 4.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 36.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 35.
