John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. (1547–1616) (continued) |
| 9421 |
| I am almost frighted out of my seven senses. 1 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. ix. |
| 9422 |
| Within a stone’s throw of it. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. ix. |
| 9423 |
| Let us make hay while the sun shines. 2 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. xi. |
| 9424 |
| I never thrust my nose into other men’s porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all. 3 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. xi. |
| 9425 |
| Little said is soonest mended. 4 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. xi. |
| 9426 |
| A close mouth catches no flies. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. xi. |
| 9427 |
| She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. xi. |
| 9428 |
| You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the ’versal world but what you can turn your hand to. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. xi. |
| 9429 |
| It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. xi. |
| 9430 |
| Delay always breeds danger. 5 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. ii. |
| 9431 |
| They must needs go whom the Devil drives. 6 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv. |
| 9432 |
| A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 7 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv. |
| 9433 |
| More knave than fool. 8 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv. |
| 9434 |
| I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. v. |
| 9435 |
| I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. viii. |
| 9436 |
| Here is the devil-and-all to pay. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x. |
| 9437 |
| I begin to smell a rat. 9 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x. |
| Note 1. See Scott, Quotation 62. [back] |
| Note 2. See Heywood, Quotation 11. [back] |
| Note 3. See Heywood, Quotation 130. [back] |
| Note 4. See Wither, Quotation 5. [back] |
| Note 5. See Shakespeare, King Henry VI. Part I, Quotation 4. [back] |
| Note 6. See Heywood, Quotation 114. [back] |
| Note 7. See Heywood, Quotation 67. Also Plutarch, Quotation 164. [back] |
| Note 8. See Marlowe, Quotation 9. [back] |
| Note 9. See Middleton, Quotation 4. [back] |