Pedro Calderon
Pedro Calderon
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest. Born when the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further, his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre...
grief two hydra
Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.
two charity sake
A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.
dreams good greatest life themselves
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams
dream dreams good greatest life quotes
What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
love madness
Love that is not madness is not love.
kings giving soul
To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.
events announcements great-events
Great events have sent before them their announcements.
foxes cunning
The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.
law cruelty
All just laws condemn cruelty.
stronger needs matrimony
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.
advice
They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
pain lying loss
Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.
speak-no-evil thee deserve
Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?
pretty-woman her-beauty needs
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.