Cervantes Prize Recipient

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

    “It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”
    —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)

    “He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)