Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Don Quixote.
Madness Quotes
Having thus lost his understanding, he unluckily stumbled upon the oddest fancy that ever entered into a madman's brain; for now he thought it convenient and necessary, as well for the increase of...
Society and Class Quotes
"Pray, sir," cried Vivaldo, "oblige us with an account of her parentage, and the place of her birth, to complete the description." (1.2.5.5)
Mortality Quotes
Let death then quickly be my cure. / When thus we ills unknown endure, / 'Tis shortest to despair. (1.3.9.5)
Gender Quotes
"[Her] courteousness and fair looks draw on everybody to love her; but then her dogged stubborn coyness breaks their hearts, and makes them ready to hang themselves." (1.2.4.6)
Loyalty Quotes
This chimera disturbed him, as if it had been a real truth; so that he began to be mightily perplexed, reflecting on the danger to which his honour was exposed. But at last his virtue overcame the...
Race Quotes
"I must only acquaint the reader, that if any objection is to be made as to the veracity of this, it is only that the author is an Arabian, and those of that country are not a little addicted to ly...
Manipulation Quotes
There was none of the beholders but was ready to burst into laughter, having a sight of the master's madness and the servant's simplicity. (1.4.3.2)
Violence Quotes
Don Quixote […] once more dropped his target, lifted up his lance, and then let if fall so heavily on the fellow's pate, that, without damaging his lance, he broke the carrier's head in three or...