Cervantes Prize Recipient

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

    “Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
    —Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

    “He saw, he wish’d, and to the prize aspir’d.
    Resolv’d to win, he meditates the way,
    By force to ravish, or by fraud betray;
    For when success a lover’s toil attends,
    Few ask, if fraud or force attain’d his ends.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “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)