Quixote

It's a quotation from Don Quixote.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is considered the most important work of Spanish literature since "Don Quixote."

He was called Don Quixote of La Mancha.

The main characters of the novel are Don Quixote and his faithful squire Sancho Panza.

While the Duke of Alba in the Netherlands ruled with the axe of the executioner, Cervantes, in Spain, wrote his Don Quixote, and Lope de Vega, who himself held a post connected with the Inquisition, produced his admirable comedies.

I don't remember if Don Quixote wore a hat or not.

Don Quixote passed three days and three nights with Roque, and had he passed three hundred years he would have found enough to observe and wonder at in his mode of life. At daybreak they were in one spot, at dinner-time in another; sometimes they fled without knowing from whom, at other times they lay in wait, not knowing for what.

"Then your worship understands rhyming too?" "And better than thou thinkest," replied Don Quixote, "as thou shalt see when thou carriest a letter written in verse from beginning to end to my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, for I would have thee know, Sancho, that all or most of the knights-errant in days of yore were great troubadours and great musicians, for both of these accomplishments, or more properly speaking gifts, are the peculiar property of lovers-errant: true it is that the verses of the knights of old have more spirit than neatness in them."

Don Quixote tilts at windmills.