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“A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”

Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Prologue

“My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.”

Miguel de Cervantes книга La gitanilla

La Gitanilla (The Little Gypsy) (c. 1590–1612; published 1613)

“Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.”

Miguel de Cervantes книга La gitanilla

La Gitanilla (The Little Gypsy) (c. 1590–1612; published 1613)

“The pot calls the kettle black.”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV, Ch. 43.

“I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.

“By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 4.

“A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle.”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 7.

“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 74.

“An honest man's word is as good as his bond.”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV, Ch. 34.

“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.

“Let us make hay while the sun shines.”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.

“Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.

“It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 1.

“Can we ever have too much of a good thing?”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 6.

“Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.”

Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter

“I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.”

Источник: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.

“You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”

...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Prologue