Showing posts with label Miguel de Cervantes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miguel de Cervantes. Show all posts
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Quote of the Day (Miguel de Cervantes, on How Don Quixote Went Mad)

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“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” —Spanish novelist Miguel ...
Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Quote of the Day (Miguel de Cervantes, on ‘Urgent Necessity’)

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“Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.”―Spanish novelist-s...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Quote of the Day (Miguel de Cervantes, Comparing Discretion and Folly)

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"Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion." —Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605)
Friday, October 7, 2011

Quote of the Day (G.K. Chesterton, on a Turning Point in Moslem-Christian Relations)

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“Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath   (Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.)   And he sees across a we...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

Quote of the Day (Miguel de Cervantes, on Mercy)

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“Though the attributes of God are all equal, to our eyes that of mercy is brighter and loftier than that of justice.”—Miguel de Cervantes, D...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

This Day in Theater History (Shakespeare Play Lost in Fire?)

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September 30, 1808—It was bad enough that during the morning, the Covent Garden Theatre in London was completely consumed by fire, or that 2...