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 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
“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 23.
“The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 23.
“Heaven's help is better than early rising.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 34.
“Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”
Cada uno es como Dios le hizo, y aún peor muchas veces.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 4.
“Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 3.
“Let the worst come to the worst.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 5.
“The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 10.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 55.
“Let every man look before he leaps.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 14.
“Liberty … is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 58.
