Cervantes Prize Recipient

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

    “If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.”
    —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)