Quotes About Spain

Dortmund is a fantastic club, critical for my career. But my Spanish grandfather on my mother's side always wished that I play in Spain. And if, then at Real Madrid.

It was very hard leaving the people I was very close to. But you also have to value opportunities that come. I had a strong mindset to withstand that and come alone to Spain.

Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to be saved she must redeem herself?

But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.

Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.

I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally.

All Spanish intellectuals burst into one great song of joy and hope. Now Spain was clean. Now every Spaniard was wholly obedient to Church and King. Alone of all European countries, Spain was now one united mass of loyal men, believing and acting as one being. Every thinker and poet in Spain celebrated in book and song this glorious event, this blessed time, the dawn of Spain's Golden Age. It was the end of Spain.

But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass and ate the shards, preferring his own English blood to their sweet wine. He died soon after.

And that would make you – (Geary) A Cro-Mag, so yeah, when you call me a barbaric caveman, I am. Literally. Hell, I even knew a couple Neanderthals who once kicked my ass all over what is now Toledo, Spain. But here's the fun part. Your boyfriend over there is even older than I am and he's considered a baby by his family. (ZT)

On the death of Leo X. in 1521, Adrian, the inquisitor general was elected pope. He had laid the foundation of his papal celebrity in Spain. "It appears, according to the most moderate calculation, that during the five years of the ministry of Adrian, 24,025 persons were condemned by the inquisition, of whom one thousand six hundred and twenty were burned alive.

the Spanish ambassador in England, Guzman de Silva, reported to Philip II

Nay, the extent of ground is of so little value, without labour, that I have heard it affirmed, that in Spain itself a man may be permitted to plough, sow, and reap, without being disturbed, upon land he has no other title to, but only his making use of it.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

Para bien o para mal, a despecho del turco, el francés, el holandés, el inglés y la puta que los parió, España tuvo, durante un siglo y medio, bien agarrados a Europa y al mundo por las pelotas

pues nada define mejor la España de mi siglo, y la de todos, que la imagen del hidalgo pobre y miserable, muerto de hambre, que no trabaja porque es rebaje de su condición; y aunque ayuna a diario sale a la calle con espada, dándose aires, y se echa migas de pan en la barba para que sus vecinos piensen que ha comido.

En uno de sus Episodios nacionales, por cierto, lo expresaba muy bien Galdós: La pobre y asendereada España continuaría su desabrida historia dedicándose a cambiar de pescuezo, en los diferentes perros, los mismos dorados collares.

Por necesidad batallo / y una vez puesto en la silla / se va ensanchando Castilla / delante de mi caballo.

Si al menos fueran extranjeros los enemigos de España, todavía. Pero no. Todos los que con la espada, con la pluma, con la palabra, agravan y perpetúan los males de la Nación son españoles.

en España nunca se dice lo que pasa, pero desgraciadamente siempre acaba pasando lo que se dice.

la clase dirigente catalana, en buena parte forrada de pasta con el tráfico de esclavos negros y los negocios de una Cuba todavía española, tenía asegurado su tres por ciento, o su noventa por ciento, o lo que trincara entonces, para un rato largo.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

las tres religiones y sus respectivas manifestaciones sociales coexistieron a menudo en España, pero nunca en plan de igualdad, como afirman ciertos buenistas y muchos cantamañanas.

Que si es mucha verdad que nuestra pobre España no tuvo nunca ni justicia, ni buen gobierno, ni hombres públicos honestos, ni apenas reyes dignos de llevar corona, nunca le faltaron, vive Dios, buenos vasallos dispuestos a olvidar el abandono, la miseria y la injusticia, para apretar los dientes, desenvainar un acero y pelear, qué remedio, por la honra de su nación

con el creciente radicalismo atizado por la cada vez más arrogante Iglesia católica, las persecuciones contra moros y judíos menudearon en la zona cristiana (hubo un poco en todas partes, pero los navarros se lo curraron con verdadero entusiasmo, asaltando un par de veces la judería de Pamplona y luego arrasando la de Estella, calentados por un cura llamado Oillogoyen, que además de estar como una cabra era un hijo de puta con balcones a la calle).