Allegory Quote by Helen Waddell

“I must not hesitate to acknowledge where Europe is great, for great she is without doubt. We cannot help loving her with all our…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“There were many of the upper and noble classes who had also found this alluring lifestyle completely irresistible; so many, many folks – from…

— Ted Anthony Roberts

History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the reality of…

— King Felipe VI

That the world is, is the mystical.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“...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

“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

In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

— Ben Sidran

In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its…

— Cormac McCarthy

We all have our place in this diverse Spain.

— King Felipe VI

Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.

— Wyndham Lewis

“All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, their writing carries baggage from an immense…

— Julio Cortázar