Quotes About Culture

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion.

Spanish girls make wonderful wives. I've never had one so I know.

For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.

That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.

The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.

Don't bother with churches, government buildings or city squares, if you want to know about a culture, spend a night in its bars

He was fairly happy, except that, like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America, and he had discovered writing.

She was sick and when she was sick she was sick as Southern women are sick.

For all of us who lived in Paris; we will never forget it because Paris is a moveable feast

But I fear the Indians of Cleveland.

The bullfight is a Spanish institution; it has not existed because of the foreigners and tourists, but always in spite of them and any step to modify it to secure their approval, which it will never have, is a step towards its complete suppression.

you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there were all the others. But for a long time there were the Russians.

There was a time, not so long ago, when the stupid and uneducated aspired to be thought intelligent and cultured people doing their best to feign stupidity.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO Yes, and music is the opium of the people.

Nobody knows what tribes we came from nor what our tribal inheritance is nor what the mysteries were in the woods where the people lived that we came from. All we know is that we do not know. We know nothing about what happens to us in the nights.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

I've known a lot of gypsies and they are strange enough. But so are we. The difference is we have to make an honest living. Nobody knows what tribes we came from nor what our tribal inheritance is nor what the mysteries were in the woods where the people lived that we came from. All we know is that we do not know.

French, the language of diplomacy. Spanish, the language of bureaucracy.

Ein Klassiker ist ein Buch, das die Leute loben, aber nicht lesen.

The only place where you could see life and death, i.e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it.

like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

My mojito in the Bodeguita del Medio and my daiquiri in the Floridita.