Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Duchess of Abrantes

Duchess of Abrantes

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The flattery is a currency that impoverishes the one who receives it.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

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We all have demons in the dark corners of the soul, but if we bring them into the light, the demons shrink, weaken, fall silent, and finally leave us in peace.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

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The traumas do not disappear by disregarding them; they are a persistent jellyfish that waits in the shadows and, at the first opportunity, attacks with its snake-like tendrils.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

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This serves to ease our conscience, daughter - he explained to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity, they need justice.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

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We are all now at an age to throw overboard the feelings that serve no purpose and keep only those that help us live.

Marco Aurelio Almazán

Marco Aurelio Almazán

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One should never argue with a superior, as there is a risk of being right.

Marco Aurelio Almazán

Marco Aurelio Almazán

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It is said that there are three kinds of witnesses: Those who have seen clearly, but doubt what they have seen. Those who have seen poorly, but believe they have seen clearly. And those who have not seen anything and claim to have seen everything.

Pedro Almodovar

Pedro Almodovar

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Being a film director in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

Edmundo de Amicis

Edmundo de Amicis

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The friendships are like marriages: out of every ten, one is made out of love.

Edmundo de Amicis

Edmundo de Amicis

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A house without books is a house without dignity.

Edmundo de Amicis

Edmundo de Amicis

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The one who respects the flag when they are young will know how to defend it when they are older.

Henry F. Amiel

Henry F. Amiel

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Look twice to see what is fair. Look only once to see what is beautiful.