NOUN
- the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical
- any impractical idealist (after Cervantes' hero)
How To Use Don Quixote In A Sentence
- Then did they ask a thousand questions of Don Quixote; but he would answer to none of them, and only requested them to give him some meat, and suffer him to sleep, seeing rest was most behooveful for him. The First Part. V. Wherein Is Prosecuted Former Narration of Our Knights Misfortunes
- Here, brother Sancho Panza," said Don Quixote when he saw it, "we may plunge our hands up to the elbows in what they call adventures; but observe, even shouldst thou see me in the greatest danger in the world, thou must not put a hand to thy sword in my defence, unless indeed thou perceivest that those who assail me are rabble or base folk; for in that case thou mayest very properly aid me; but if they be knights it is on no account permitted or allowed thee by the laws of knighthood to help me until thou hast been dubbed a knight. The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
- It was a project that outlived the lead actor, and remained a work in progress for so many years that Welles eventually threatened to retitle it When Are You Going To Finish Don Quixote?
- What does Demosthenian mean, Senor Don Quixote?" said the duchess; "it is a word I never heard in all my life. Don Quixote
- In short, Kirmani tries to quantify the unquantifiable, and ends up looking like Don Quixote ferociously tilting at the scientific windmill.
- Demosthenian eloquence," said Don Quixote, "means the eloquence of Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the two most eloquent orators in the world. Don Quixote
- The onomastic instability of the novel Don Quixote undermines all certainty of a linear reading.
- One of these is writer Miguel de Cervantes whose immortal work Don Quixote recently celebrated its 400th anniversary.
- As she went on to the creek and its pools where she could bathe, I took from my pack my Penguin edition of Don Quixote.
- Don Quixote made no answer, nor did the horsemen wait for one, but wheeling again with all their followers, they began curvetting round Don Quixote, who, turning to Sancho, said, "These gentlemen have plainly recognised us; I will wager they have read our history, and even that newly printed one by the Aragonese. Don Quixote