Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes

What Law, What Reason Can Deny That Gift So Sweet, So Natural That God Has Given A Stream, A Fish, A Beast, A Bird?

Tis Not Where We Lie But Whence We Fell; The Loss Of Heaven's The Greatest Pain In Hell.

The Dower Of Great Beauty Has Always Been Misfortune, Since Happiness And Beauty Do Not Agree Together.

At The Point When Affection Is Not Frenzy, It Is Not Adore.

No Virtue Can Be Real That Has Not Been Tried. The Gold In The Crucible Alone Is Perfect; The Loadstone Tests The Steel, And The Diamond Is Tried By The Diamond, While Metals Gleam The Brighter In The Furnace.

Grief Has Been Compared To A Hydra; For Every One That Dies, Two Are Born.

All Just Laws Condemn Cruelty.

These Flowers, Which Were Splendid And Sprightly, Waking In The Dawn Of The Morning, In The Evening Will Be A Pitiful Frivolity, Sleeping In The Cold Night's Arms.

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.

A Good Action Is Never Lost; It Is A Treasure Laid Up And Guarded For The Doer's Need.

Great Events Have Sent Before Them Their Announcements.

All Must Yield To The Weight Of Years; Conquest Is Not Difficult For Time.