Top 3 Don Quixote quotes

  •  "I shall never be fool enough to turn knight-errant. For I see quite well that it’s not the fashion now to do as they did in the olden days when they say those famous knights roamed the world."

    Innkeeper, Part 1, Chapter 32

     The innkeeper makes these remarks when the Priest attempts to convince him that chivalry books do not depict true events. These remarks are important because Sancho hears them and begins to believe that he needs to return to his family. However, this section of the book also reveals the Priest's hypocritical nature as he attempts to return Don Quixote to his village but yet lives vicariously through the adventure-ridden life of the knight-errant.

  •  "Now that I’ve to be sitting on a bare board, does your worship want me to flay my bum?"

    Sancho Panza, Part 2, Chapter 41

    Sancho poses this question to his master when they sit on the 'magical' wooden horse that the duke and duchess provide the knight and squire for the fulfillment of a fictitious quest. Sancho responds thus when his master requests him to lash himself before the beginning of the journey so that he can restore Lady Dulcinea from her enchantment

    The quote is a perfect example of Sancho's wit and the humor that pervades both volumes of Don Quixote

  •  "Great hearts, my dear master, should be patient in misfortune as well as joyful in prosperity. And this I judge from myself. For if I was merry when I was Governor now that I’m a squire on foot I’m not sad, for I’ve heard tell that Fortune, as they call her, is a drunken and capricious woman and, worse still, blind; and so she doesn’t see what she’s doing, and doesn’t know whom she is casting down or raising up."

    Sancho Panza, Part 2, Chapter 66

    This quote is extracted as Sancho attempts to comfort his master about his recent loss to the knight of the moon. The quote elucidates the reversal that has occurred between the duo, since before this Don Quixote had always been the one to pass on words of wisdom to his squire. Now, Sancho becomes the one to impart wisdom but he yet refers to Don Quixote as his master despite no longer being in his service. In this quote, Sancho displays his growth through his wisdom, humility, and loyalty, all at once.