Creative Quotations from Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616) born on Sep 29

Spanish "novelist, dramatist, poet". "He was the most important figure in Spanish literature; creator of "Don Quixote," 1605, a satirical romance of chivalry."

Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

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

"Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up."

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	""Don Quixote," pt. II, ch. 23."
R:	"In "Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992."
A:	""El Licenciado Vidriera.""
N:	"In "My Favorite Quotations," by Norman Vincent Peale, 1990."
K:	""Don Quixote," pt. I, ch. 8."