Quotes About Mendoza

He is aware that he feels a vague respect for the woman. Mendoza, at least, had never done the reasonable thing, never settled for less, but held to her one insane passion even as it had dragged her into the flames. Such a valuable quality in a pawn.

Magellan expected to see all four captains at Easter mass but only one, Luis de Mendoza, of Victoria, arrived.

No me vengan con que es poético ladrarle a la luna, poéticos son mis huevos y no les ladra nadie.

Eran días de grandes calores, con los mendocinos atontados de bochorno, durmiendo siestas hasta las seis de la tarde.

Mendoza returned to Victoria, where he and the other captains resumed plotting against Magellan

Under cover of his official title, Mendoza pursued his real job, that of spy.

Elizabeth, and especially Francis Drake, whom Mendoza recognized as the chief threat to Spain's imperial ambitions.