Author: Miguel de Cervantes

Cited by

• Glenda R. Carma (1)
  • IN: Laughing Fit To Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (2008) American Literature, Afican American wit and humour, history and criticism, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Another things to strive for: reading your history should move the melancholy to laughter. increase the joy of the cheer, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention, not give the serious reason to scorn it, and allow the prudent to praise it.
    FROM: Don Quixote, (1615), Novel, Spain
• Walter Scott (1)
  • IN: The Tale of Old Mortality (1816) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ahora bien, dixo el Cura, traedme, senor huesped, aquesos libros, que los quiero ver. Que me place, respondio el, y entrando, en su aposento, saco del una maletilla vieja cerrada con una cadenilla, y abriendola, hallo en ella tres libros grandes y unos papeles de muy buena letra escritos de mano. (It is mighty well, said the priest; pray, landlord, bring me those books, for I have a mind to see them. With all my heart, answerd the host; and, going to his chamber, he brought out a little old cloke-bag, with a padlock and chain to it, and opening it, he took out three large volumes, and some manuscript papers written in a fine character.
    FROM: Don Quixote, (1615), Novel, Spain
• Stephen King (1)
  • IN: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000) Non-fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Honesty’s the best policy.
    FROM: Don Quixote, (1615), Novel, Spain
• Eka Kurniawan (1)
  • IN: Beauty is a Wound (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Having cleaned his armor and made a full helmet out of a simple headpiece, and having given a name to his horse and decided on one for himself, he realized that the only thing left for him to do was to find a lady to love, for the knight errant without a lady-love was a tree without leaves or fruit, a body without a soul.
    FROM: Don Quixote, (1615), Novel, Spain
• Laura Restrepo (1)
  • IN: Isle of Passion (2005) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: .. and then, in a sort of ridiculous ceremony, they gave him the keys to the town and accepted him as the perpetual governor of the Island of Barataria.
    FROM: Don Quixote de la Mancha, (1615), Novel, Spain
• O' Connell, Catherine (1)
  • IN: Well Bread And Dead (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not with whom thou are bred, but with whom thou are fed.
    FROM: Don Quixote, (1615), Novel, Spain
• Jorge Guzmán (2)
  • IN: Job-Boj (1968) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: This insult is the penalty of my sin; and it is the righteous chatisement of heaven that jackals should devour a vanquished knight, and wasps sting him and pigs trample him under foot.
    FROM: Don Quixote, (1615), Novel, Spain
• J.M. Coetzee (1)
  • IN: The Schooldays of Jesus (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Algunos dicen: Nunca segundas partes fueron buenas.
    FROM: Don Quixote II.4, (1615), Novel, Spain
• John Edward Masefield (1)
  • IN: Salt-Water Ballads (1902) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: The mariners are a pleasant people, but little like those in the towns, and they can speak no other language than that used in ships.
    FROM: The Licentiate Vidriera, (1613), Short story, Spain