Cervantes Prize Recipient

Famous quotes containing the words cervantes, prize and/or recipient:

    I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man’s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one’s self.
    —Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

    In the corrupted currents of this world
    Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice,
    And oft ‘tis seen the wicked prize itself
    Buys out the law; but ‘tis not so above:
    There is no shuffling.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
    Milan Kundera (b. 1929)