Spaniards Quotes

• We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

  Hernando Cortes

  Heart, Historical, Gold

  75 Copy quote

• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

  Zebulon Pike

  Father, Over You, Authority

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1966). “Journals, with Letters and Related Documents”

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.

  Jared Diamond

  Military, Native American, Army

  59 Copy quote

• All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

  Michael Chang

  Knows

  56 Copy quote

• Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Maturity, Common Sense, Voting

  56 Copy quote

• Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Kindness, Promise

  52 Copy quote

• "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 and inflict upon them untold misery, suffering and distress, tormenting, harrying and persecuting them mercilessly." According to Las Casas, atrocities continued unabated in the Americas, even half a century after the discovery.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Discovery, Suffering, Tears

  89 Copy quote

• Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Europe, Disgusting

  10 Copy quote

• The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Seems, Nationalism

  Essays "Of SeemingWise" (1625)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Husband, Italian, Mistress

  57 Copy quote

• The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

  William Hazlitt

  Country, Scotch, Giving

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're Filipino, you're the beaner of the Asian community 'cause you're just like us. You're indigenous people that got banged by some Spaniards. That's why you have names like Kwan Ping Del Toro.

  Carlos Mencia

  Names, People, Community

  10 Copy quote

• The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

  Donald Grant Mitchell

  Men, Doe, Fortune

  6 Copy quote

• He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.324

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Bulls, Benefits, Institutions

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “Three Men on the Bummel”, p.193, Jerome K. Jerome

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 had achieved by the time of the Han, the Gupta, and the Hellenistic age. The fact is that the Amerindian high cultures were a human modality of their own, and those Spaniards who came among them first would have had the sensation, if they had ever heard of such literature, of treading in a world of imaginative science fiction. But it was real, and the Amerindian achievements deserve all our sympathy and praise.

  Joseph Needham

  Real, Aztec, Achievement

  Joseph Needham, Gwei-Djen Lu (1985). “Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances: Listening Once Again”, p.64, World Scientific

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don't want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America. They don't want to talk about race. The discussion for them is based on class struggle, rich against poor, but doesn't offer the possibility of a dialogue about racial questions.

  Bocafloja

  Latin, Struggle, Race

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.

  Francis Parkman

  Strong, Ambition, Passion

  Francis Parkman (1927). “The Works of Francis Parkman”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.

  Ouida

  Religious, War, Soul And Body

  8 Copy quote

• Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Length, Prove It

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.14, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

  John Steinbeck

  Jewels, Greed, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

  Robert Southey

  Looks, Care, Littles

  7 Copy quote

• 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 very much what they did.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Home, Fighting

  8 Copy quote

• I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

  Lawrence Welk

  Fairs

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• "I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said. "No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards."

  William Goldman

  Men, Giving, Black

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, 1973.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source