Don Quixote Quotes

“go about perpetually making trombones of their swords in every petty quarrel! No,”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition

“Sancho”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition

“there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the sails that turned by the wind make the millstone go.” “It is easy to see,” replied Don Quixote, “that thou art not used to this business of adventures; those are giants; and if thou art afraid, away with thee out of this and betake thyself to prayer while I engage them in fierce and unequal combat.” So saying, he gave the spur to his steed Rocinante, heedless of the cries his squire Sancho sent after him, warning him that most certainly they were windmills and not giants he was going to attack. He, however, was so positive they were giants that he neither heard the cries of Sancho, nor perceived, near as he was, what they were, but made at them shouting,”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition