Spanish Quotes

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.