“Put you in this pickle. Ch. 5.”
Miguel de Cervantes
10 quotes
“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. Ch. 4.”
“By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. Ch. 4.”
“Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. Ch. 4.”
“Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam).”
“En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no hace mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. In some village in La Mancha, whose name I do not care to recall, there dwelt not so long ago a gentleman of the type wont to keep an unused lance, an old shield, a skinny old horse, and a greyhound for racing. Ch. 1.”
“They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.”
“I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.”
“...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas. You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
“Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires. A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”