Spaniards Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of…
— Adolf Hitler
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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more…
— Robert Southey
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Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.
— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
— Mark Twain
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It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.
— Thomas Gage
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In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.
— Carl I. Hagen
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In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives,…
— Heinrich von Kleist
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The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.
— Ron Atkinson
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
— Zebulon Pike
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But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates…
— Martha Gellhorn
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"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them…
— Bartolome de las Casas
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Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is…
— Curt Sachs
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Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and…
— Hervey Allen
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Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments…
— Garrison Keillor
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Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard…
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World…
— Joseph Needham
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The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected…
— John Steinbeck
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