Quotes from Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

Great events have sent before them their announcements.

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Love is all around you, love is there in you laughter, in your hair, love flows everywhere. Love is older than you but the light shining through makes me see your love is all new.

Love that is not madness is not love.