Vulgar words in Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote (Page 1)
This book at a glance
|
~ ~ ~ Sentence 429 ~ ~ ~
Cervantes was furious, and called him a blockhead; but Germond de Lavigue, the distinguished Spanish scholar, rashly asserts that but for this Avellanada, he would never have finished "Don Quixote."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 750 ~ ~ ~
"That cannot be," answered Don Quixote: "I say 36 there cannot be a knight-errant without a mistress; for it is as essential and as natural for them to be enamored as for the sky to have stars; and most certainly, no history exists in which a knight-errant is to be found without an amour; for, from the very circumstance of his being without, he would not be acknowledged as a legitimate knight, but a bastard who had entered the fortress of chivalry, not by the gate, but over the pales, like a thief and robber."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 923 ~ ~ ~
"What I see and perceive," answered Sancho, "is only a man on a gray ass like mine, with something on his head that glitters."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 929 ~ ~ ~
There were two villages in that neighborhood, one of them so small that it had neither shop nor barber, but the other adjoining to it had both; therefore the barber of the larger served also the less, wherein one customer now wanted to be let blood and another to be shaved; to perform which, the barber was now on his way, carrying with him his brass basin; and it so happened that while upon the road it began to rain, and to save his hat, which was a new one, he clapped the basin on his head, which being lately scoured was seen glittering at the distance of half a league; and he rode on a gray ass, as Sancho had affirmed.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,242 ~ ~ ~
"Honey is not for the mouth of an ass," answered Sancho: "in good time, wife, you shall see, yea, and admire to hear yourself styled ladyship by all your vassals."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,279 ~ ~ ~
This gentle squire on gentle ass Went gentle Rozinante's pace, Following his lord from place to place.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,329 ~ ~ ~
Honey is not for the mouth of an ass.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,433 ~ ~ ~
"The first time, he was brought home to us laid athwart an ass, all battered and bruised.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,441 ~ ~ ~
To this burden women are born, they must obey their husbands if they are ever such blockheads.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,572 ~ ~ ~
Buffoons must not come near her, neither must she be approached by the ignorant vulgar, who have no sense of her charms; and this term is equally applicable to all ranks, for whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,850 ~ ~ ~
Ambition disquiets thee not, nor does the vain pomp of the world disturb thee; for thy chief concern is the care of thy ass, since to me is committed the comfort and protection of thine own person,-a burden imposed on the master by nature and custom.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,856 ~ ~ ~
An ass with golden trappings makes a better appearance than a horse with a pack-saddle.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,884 ~ ~ ~
Fifteen days passed, as public fame reports, after the ass was missing, and while the unlucky alderman was standing in the market-place, another alderman of the same town came up to him, and said, 'Pay me for my good news, gossip, for your ass has made its appearance.'
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,889 ~ ~ ~
"'You will do me a great favor,' said the owner of the lost ass, 'and I shall be happy at any time to do as much for you.'
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,897 ~ ~ ~
171 "'I declare, then,' said the owner, 'that, as far as regards braying, there is not the least difference between you and an ass; for in my life I never heard anything more natural.'
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,904 ~ ~ ~
Thus, doubling their brayings, they made 172 the tour of the whole mountain, without having any answer from the stray ass, not even by signs.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,906 ~ ~ ~
On seeing the body, the owner said, 'Truly, I wondered at his silence; for, had he not been dead, he certainly would have answered us, or he were no true ass; nevertheless, neighbor, though I have found him dead, my trouble in the search has been well repaid in listening to your exquisite braying.'
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,953 ~ ~ ~
177 Who sets up for a talker and a wit, sinks at the first trip into a contemptible buffoon.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,030 ~ ~ ~
Let this blockhead alone, I beseech your excellencies, He will grind your souls to death, not between two, but two thousand proverbs, all timed as well and as much to the purpose as I wish God may grant him health, or me, if I desire to hear them."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,109 ~ ~ ~
"Pshaw!" replied Merlin, "the devil is an ass and a lying rascal; he was sent from me and not from Montesinos, who is still in his cave contriving, or rather awaiting, the end of his enchantment, for the tail is yet unflayed.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,152 ~ ~ ~
"Your graces will do well," said Don Quixote, "to order this blockhead to retire, that you may get rid of his troublesome folly."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,407 ~ ~ ~
Whence it may be gathered, that, God Almighty often directs the judgment of those who govern, though otherwise mere blockheads: besides, he had heard the priest of his parish tell a like case; and, were it not that he was so unlucky as to forget all he had a mind to remember, his memory was so good, there would not have been a better in the whole island.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,909 ~ ~ ~
He likewise clapped the mitre on Dapple's head,-in short, never was an ass so honored and bedizened.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,913 ~ ~ ~
"Ho!" cries one, "here comes Sancho Panza's ass, as gay as a parrot, and Don Quixote's old horse, leaner than ever!"