'You are a villain and a scoundrel,' said Don Quixote, 'and you are the one who is vacant and foolish; I have more upstairs than the whore who bore you ever did.'

Let each man say what he chooses; if because of this I am criticized by the ignorant, I shall not be chastised by the learned.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.