Quoted By:
1547-1616: Miguel Cervantes (regarded as greatest writer of the Spanish language)
>"“That is the natural way of women,” said Don Quixote, “to scorn the one that loves them, and love the one that hates them."
—Don Quixote
>"But who is there in the world that can boast of having fathomed or understood the wavering mind and unstable nature of a woman? Of a truth no one."
—Don Quixote
>"I am persuaded, my friend, that a woman is virtuous only in proportion as she is or is not tempted; and that she alone is strong who does not yield to the promises, gifts, tears, and importunities of earnest lovers; for what thanks does a woman deserve for being good if no one urges her to be bad, and what wonder is it that she is reserved and circumspect to whom no opportunity is given of going wrong and who knows she has a husband that will take her life the first time he detects her in an impropriety?"
—Don Quixote
>"Woman has by nature a nimbler wit than man for good and for evil, though it is apt to fail when she sets herself deliberately to reason."
—Don Quixote
>"Between a woman’s ‘yes’ and ‘no’ I wouldn’t venture to put the point of a pin, for there would not be room for it."
—Don Quixote
>"Leandra’s youth furnished an excuse for her fault, at least with those to whom it was of no consequence whether she was good or bad; those who knew her shrewdness and intelligence did not attribute her misdemeanour to ignorance but to wantonness and the natural disposition of women, which is for the most part flighty and ill-regulated."
—Don Quixote
>"I follow another, easier, and to my mind wiser course, and that is to rail at the frivolity of women, at their inconstancy, their double dealing, their broken promises, their unkept pledges, and in short the want of reflection they show in fixing their affections and inclinations."
—Don Quixote
