Skip to content

Francisco de Quevedo Quotes

1580–1645 Spain

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, (14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.

Spain
Novelists
Poets
Politicians

Random Francisco de Quevedo quote

21 quotes

Is there any devil equal to a flatterer, to an envious man, to a false friend, to an evil companion ? Well, the poor man is free from all these; for he is neither flattered, nor envied; he has no friend, good of bad, and no one keeps him company. The poor it is that live well and die better.

Sueños y discursos (1627)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Francisco de Quevedo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.