Historical fiction Quote by Dawn Patitucci

“...and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reckoned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or of Christian…

— Daniel Defoe

“Barcelona Boner,-he was a Spanish chap, and boned everything he could lay his hands on.”

— Carolyn Sigler

“Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune not to…

— Noel Monk

“Tiago decided he enjoyed armchair warfare. It was so comfortable, and there were pastries.”

— Thea Harrison

“I tell you, those Spaniards are rank cowards, as all bullies are. They pray to a woman, the idolatrous rascals! and no wonder they…

— Anonymous

“...these Spaniards are all an odd set; the very word Spaniard has a curious, conspirator, Guy-Fawkish twang to it.”

— Herman Melville

“He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

“He’d polished that old coffee table a few times since he had arrived, but the dust seemed to meander from room to room like…

— Ania Ahlborn

“Spain is a million things, it’s lantanas and hibiscus, it’s roses that aren’t ashamed to split their skirts for love, rude flowers pushing out…

— Lisa R. Spaar

“The slow darkening of the murals as you look from right to left. It seems somehow to symbolise the gradual imposition of the Spaniards’…

— Malcolm Lowry

“For dinner I had seared sneer with a glaze of distant gaze, and a side of mashed pride covered in grace.”

— Jarod Kintz