Don Quixote

“Kanmakan is the typical Arab Knight, gentle and valiant as Don Quixote Sabbáh is the Grazioso, a”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

“But the American Don Quixote had a higher virtue than the knight created by Cervantes, for Don Quixote never could transform Aldonza into Dulcinea, while the peoples that Bolivar saw in his imagination, those peoples who at first were hostile to his work, through a century of constant purification, through a century during which Bolivar has become a symbol, a protecting genius, a warning against danger, an irresistible force to conquer difficulties and an imperious finger pointing to higher destinies, are approaching more and more each day what Bolivar thought they ought to be.”

Simon Bolivar the Liberator

“When Purcell died, on November 21, 1695, he was busy with the music for Tom d'Urfey's Don Quixote (part iii.), being helped by one Eccles, who enjoyed a certain mild fame in his day.”

Purcell

“Rogers was not Hayes’s sidekick, just as Don Quixote was never Sancho Panza’s sidekick.”

Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

“Rabelais, or Scarron, or Don Quixote — — They are all books which excite laughter; and thou knowest, dear Toby, that there is no passion so serious as lust.”

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman