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
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.”
Variante: 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.
