Father Quixote

Famous quotes containing the words father and/or quixote:

    Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
    Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
    Thou know’st ‘tis common, all that lives must die,
    Passing through nature to eternity.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
    Spanish proverb, pt. 1, bk. 4, ch. 7, quoted in Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605, trans by P. Motteux)