Entertainment Quote by Christopher Byford

“Above all, Franco understood how to take advantage of opportunities when they arose. His natural caution and conservatism proved particularly valuable during the civil…

— Geoffrey Jensen

Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be…

— James Franco

“Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del…

— Langston Hughes

“Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the…

— George Orwell

“In this city, the rich had some room, and the middle class had less, and the poor had none.”

— Vikram Chandra

“They skimped on clothing and entertainment, and, with rents tightly controlled, spent a major percentage of their income on food.”

— Stanley Karnow

“There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some…

— Wallace Stegner

“He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a…

— Sarah Bakewell

“The French, I knew, were well ahead in this area, constructing gigantic palaces in the centre of cities which offer every luxury to travellers…

— Iain Pears

For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge…

— Hans Koning

“As soon as I left one town, I was in another, each one a totally different world, as if an invisible box surrounded its…

— Carolee Dean

“The first goal to be able to divide my life between two lovely places, an island off the coast of France and a village…

— Anne Weale