The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 04 Quotes

“I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.”
― Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 04

“Good sir, it is as much the part of great spirits to have patience when the world frowns upon them, as to be joyful when all goes well. Indeed I have heard say that this same she-thing they call Fortune is a whimsical freakish drunken queen, and blind into the bargain; so that she neither sees what she does, nor knows whom she raises, nor whom she casts down.”
― Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 04

“What covers you discovers you.”
― Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 04

“Never mind what some will say, for then thou wilt never have done. One may as soon tie up the winds, as the tongues of slanderers.”
― Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 04

“Heaven send us better times! There is nothing but plotting and counter-plotting, undermining and counter-mining in this world.”
― Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 04

“I will take my corporal oath that we move no faster than a snail can gallop, or an ant can trot.”
― Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 04