Words matter. These are the best Don Quixote Quotes from famous people such as Helen Oyeyemi, Robyn Davidson, P. J. O’Rourke, W. H. Auden, Jason Winston George, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t despise ‘Don Quixote,’ but it is a book I don’t… get. I’ll have to come back it. Maybe there’ll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with ‘Paradise Lost’ and the ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy.
If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they’re of journeys. Whether it’s ‘Don Quixote’ or ‘Ulysses,’ there’s always this sense of a quest – of a person going away to be tested, and coming back.
Inside every Sancho Panza there’s a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
The first time I got paid as an actor was for ‘Man of La Mancha.’ So ‘Don Quixote’ has always been a thing for me.
The great thing about rock n’ roll is, if you want to fight – like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you – it’s Don Quixote all over again. You’re really chasing windmills.
I’ve always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It’s a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
We’ve been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
There are so many great characters because one of the things that makes Batman fantastic is that Batman is tragic. I’ve said this elsewhere; I’ve said it over and over again, but the beauty of the character is that he’s a Don Quixote.
How many different works of art have been inspired by ‘Don Quixote?’ Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the ‘Man Of La Mancha.’
Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on ‘Don Quixote.’ It was required reading in high school.
Fantasy Man’s my favourite, I think, because he’s sort of like Don Quixote. He lives in a fantasy world, but he gets jolted back into reality, and I guess that’s me, really!
When I put on my consumer hat, and I’m buying tickets to be entertained, I’m not interested in seeing, like, ‘Don Quixote.’ Unless someone really spectacular is dancing.
