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Juan Pérez de Montalbán Quotes

1602–1638 Spain

Juan Pérez de Montalbán (or Montalván; 1602 – 25 June 1638) was a Spanish Catholic priest, dramatist, poet and novelist.

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The foundations of a realm are the sword and the pen.

Dictionary of Quotations: Spanish (1907)

A weighty maxim 'tis, and rule of state,
In his own country never king should mate.

Dictionary of Quotations: Spanish (1907)

To put a padlock on the lips
And call it long-suffering,
Is either a lack of sensibility,
Or an encouragement to injury.

Dictionary of Quotations: Spanish (1907)

Love's shaft best aimed will be
When none are by to see.

Dictionary of Quotations: Spanish (1907)

The honest man for ever was
The easiest to cheat.

Dictionary of Quotations: Spanish (1907)

Why! with twenty crowns
You can make the dumb speak;
And the attorney tells me that he will get me out of this.

Dictionary of Quotations: Spanish (1907)

So many are the ingrates,
All the dungeons in the world,
Would hold them not if prison
Were the meed for their offence.

Dictionary of Quotations: Spanish (1907)

If a moment you'd enjoy
Drink a cold refreshing draught:
If an hour, then early dine:
If a day then dress your beard;
If a week a bath you'll take,
If a month, a porker kill;
If a happy year you'd pass
Marry then a cleanly lass.

Dictionary of Quotations: Spanish (1907)

Attribution

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