...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads - Miguel de Cervantes

You should know, Sancho, that a man is not worth more than any other if he does not do more than any other.

Plunge, scoundrel, rogue, monster — for such I take thee to be — plunge, I say, into the mare magnum of their histories; and if thou shalt find that any squire ever said or thought what thou hast said now, I will let thee nail it on my forehead, and give me, over and above, four sound slaps in the face.

no le faltaba otra cosa sino buscar una dama de quien enamorarse; porque el caballero andante sin amores era árbol sin hojas y sin fruto y cuerpo sin alma.