Quixote
['kwiksət;ki'həuti]
Examples
- We were all virtuous girls when Amy, one fine afternoon, left her father's house and sallied forth, like Don Quixote, in quest of adventures. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- His final method of taking his vows marks him the countryman of Don Quixote. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You are much pleasanter as Sancho Panza than as Don Quixote. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- What ailed Don Quixote was that he and his contemporaries wanted different things; the only ideals that count are those which express the possible development of an existing force. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One cannot help admiring him, with a mixture of pity in one's admiration, something like what one feels for Don Quixote. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Editor: Rudolf