Spain Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Spain.
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“Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away.”
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“The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.”
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“Wee may say of him, as of the Spaniard, Hee is a bad Servant, but a worse Maister.”
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“Spain, since the loss of its Catholic faith, has been above everything else a country in search of an ideology.”
“The year 1492 marks not only Columbus's voyage, but also one of the major expulsions of the Jews from Spain; Portugal would be next.”
“The Spaniard is inherently nationalistic; but no more so than other national groups. Most people, trained from birth to distrust the foreigner, are nationalistic.”
“The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.”
“In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed. In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.”
“In Magaluf the tourists come,
get drunk on beer and shots of rum,
tequila, whisky, cheap champagne,
an annual Balearic bane
that makes my town a ghastly slum.”
“What has happened, it turns out, is that by going on the euro, Spain and Italy in effect reduced themselves to the status of Third World countries that have to borrow in someone else’s currency, with all the loss of flexibility that implies.”