Men Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Ne legyen már prűd, magunk között vagyunk, és tudjuk, hogy a férfiember a hiányzó láncszem a cápa és a disznó közt.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Don't be bashful; we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon