Cervantes Prize Recipient

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

    “A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.”
    —Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

    “What we have we prize not to the worth
    Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
    Why, then we rack the value, then we find
    The virtue that possession would not show us
    Whiles it was ours.”
    —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)