Cervantes Prize Recipient

Famous quotes containing the words cervantes, prize and/or recipient:

    “Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”
    —Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

    “He saw, he wish’d, and to the prize aspir’d.
    Resolv’d to win, he meditates the way,
    By force to ravish, or by fraud betray;
    For when success a lover’s toil attends,
    Few ask, if fraud or force attain’d his ends.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)