Spain Quotes
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Spain Quotes & Sayings
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If you come from Spain, you have to play football.
— Enrique Iglesias
I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.
— George Orwell
Nature and man are opposed in Spain.
— Gertrude Stein
In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.
— Melanie Griffith
A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain ...
— Winfield Townley Scott
In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.
— Norman Mailer
There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.
— Carl I. Hagen
Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
— Manolo Blahnik
In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight.
— David Beckham
Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
— Antonio Banderas
Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I locate Essential Spain at last - the cruel winds, the grinding poverty, the unforgiving landscape. It could be Wales.
— William Donaldson
There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
— King Felipe VI
Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
— Paul Prudhomme
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
— Nancy Spain
In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.
— Antonio Banderas
The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Incandescent afternoons in Spain, the shutters closed, a blade of sun burning into the darkness.
— James Salter
Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.
— Loukas Tsoukalis
Spain is not a racist country.
— Juan Antonio Samaranch
What Is Really Going On in Spain? was another. Who's the Boss? was about whether members of the
— Jane Smiley
The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.
— Bob Monkhouse
We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
— Mark Rutte
Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.
— King Felipe VI
We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain
— Eliza Doolittle
In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.
— Francis Parkman
My favourite setting are England, because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it's fabulous and so romantic.
— Diana Hamilton
The men of Spain held ground for a little while, but then their hearts broke under their fine red coats, and they ran away to hide in the jungle.
— John Steinbeck
Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.
— Juan Carlos I Of Spain
I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.
— Pedro Almodovar
If I've learned one thing in Spain, it's that we have to fight the Communists just as hard as the Fascists. They're both evil.
— Ken Follett
When I look through your eyes, I see a disguise, and in that disguise, I see love, and in that love, you are fabulous.
— Sahara Sunday Spain
Everything begins in Paris.
— Nancy Spain
Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.
— Mariano Rajoy
I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
— Rafael Nadal
We all have our place in this diverse Spain.
— King Felipe VI
What I believe is this: Catalunya is not Spain, it is something else and you have to feel it.
— Thierry Henry
Only a fool would make the bed every day.
— Nancy Spain
Off the court, I tend to stick to the classics, but I like to have fun with color and accessories. I'm from Spain, so colors are important for me.
— Tommy Hilfiger
If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.
— Benjamin Franklin
Spanish rain,A maiden's dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancholy kills
A girl's caress. — Roman Payne
In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully.
— Honor Tracy
To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne.
— James A. Michener
I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.
— Pierre Dukan
I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
— Harlan Coben
A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone ... The blues are all the same.
— Jackson C. Frank
We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
— Carroll Quigley
Spain believe in what they do; they have absolute confidence in their style of play.
— Jose Antonio Camacho
I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
— George Orwell
But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.
— Nikolai Gogol
So many hilarious scenes and seductions!
— Dennis McKay
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
— Edmund Burke
In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
— Larry Elder
Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.
— Michael Chiarello
Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.
— Elizabeth Oakes Smith
I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life.
— Astrid Berges-Frisbey
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
— John Masefield
In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.
— Fernando Alonso
In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.
— Anton Du Beke
I have a direct line with Obama. It's a crucial link. And I can put Spain in the spotlight.
— James Costos
Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?
— Pablo Neruda
I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.
— Vicente Del Bosque
*NB. Carlos III of Spain, Carlo I of Parma, Carlo VIII of Naples and Carlo V of Sicily were the same man.
— Norman Davies
Spain also suffered an invasion of a foreign race, but she pulled herself together and sustained herself on a war-footing for seven centuries.
— Emilia Pardo Bazan
The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
— Nancy Spain
