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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. -- Lord Byron
Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Cervantes said the journey's better than the end. Practices, to me, were the journey. -- John Wooden
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. -- Lord Byron
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. -- Leonardo Sciascia
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. -- Nathaniel Parker
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes! -- Milan Kundera
Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. -- Lord Byron
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We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have come from Europe. There is no other Greek theatre anywhere else in the world. There is no other Shakespeare, Dante or Cervantes. -- Ismail Kadare
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. -- Lytton Strachey
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and MoliÃ¨re, and Swift. -- Agnes Repplier
Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft. -- James Thurber
For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes. -- Ismail Kadare
At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a couple of hundred years, most of those possibilities were abandoned in favor of a text that efficiently transmitted sentiments. -- Teju Cole
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes -- Miguel de Cervantes
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~ -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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