Quotes About Spain

Pensando en España, Orwell le dijo en cierta ocasión a Koestler: "la historia se paró en 1936".

Federico García Lorca

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. epigraph in Night Boat to Tangier

In Spain, the dead are move alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

A ver si te enteras de una vez, hijo: no hay una España. Hay dos. Y hasta que una de las dos Españas no acabe con la otra, la cosa seguirá igual.

But Joyce proclaimed his vision as comic, seeing himself as 'red-nosed', not 'blue-jawed'. Of an international catastrophe, he said, with apparent flippancy: 'Now they're bombing Spain—isn't it better that I'm making a colossal joke instead?

I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.

I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.

There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you'd find these ghost stories: sort of hidden political movies that were supposed to be about ghosts but were about something else.

I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.

I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.

There are different cinema traditions in France, Spain and other European countries. There's a much stronger intellectual tradition: cinema is seen in a more serious way.

If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.

In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support - a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.

como nos ha recordado Ortega en su España invertebrada, o en La rebelión de las masas, el mayor mal de nuestro país consiste en el recelo de la masa recela ante el hombre de grandes virtudes, ante el hombre de espíritu, acogiendo, sin embargo, en su seno solo a profetas mediocres, tanto de un lado como de otro.

The Duke of York remarked that King Ferdinand of Spain had sent a letter to the Prince Regent complaining that many parts of his kingdom had been rendered entirely unrecognizable by the English magician and demanding that Mr Strange return and restore the country to its original form.

For a Spaniard, Italy is the best place to live. You've got all the beauty, history, art, good food, and fashion.

la corrupción, un cáncer pavoroso que nos devora hasta nuestros días, llegó con los españoles, al igual que la viruela y otras devastadoras enfermedades?

Parece que hoy toca hablar de Madrid. Madrid es una gran ciudad, o por lo menos una ciudad grande.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

arcipreste de Hita, en cuyo Libro de Buen Amor supo presentar (como Chaucer con sus obras en Inglaterra) una imagen fiel, a la vez que cargada de ingenio, de la vida de su tiempo.