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. 68.
“I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 3.
“I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter, Ch. 6.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
“A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 22.
“I must follow him through thick and thin.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
“I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 9.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 3.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 3.
“A close mouth catches no flies.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.
“The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 9.
“My honor is dearer to me than my life.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 1.
“Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 6.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.
“It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.”
Book III, Author's Preface
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III
“Good painters imitate nature, bad ones vomit it.”
El licenciado Vidriera [The Lawyer of Glass]
Novelas ejemplares (1613)
“I say patience, and shuffle the cards.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 23.
“Building castles in the air, 36 and making yourself a laughing-stock.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 31.
“The eyes those silent tongues of Love.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 3.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
“My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33 (translation by J. M. Cohen, 1950).
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter, Ch. 2.
“Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 37.
“Little said is soonest mended.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.