Miguel de Cervantes Quotes about Language

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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Miguel de Cervantes

Innovation, Language, Adopted

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Peter Anthony Motteux, John Gibson Lockhart (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.277

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

Miguel de Cervantes

Latin, Silly, Language

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1948). “The Living Thoughts of Cervantes”

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

Miguel de Cervantes

Writing, Soul, Language

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

Miguel de Cervantes

Pieces, Sides, Language

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha,5”, p.221