Lope de Vega quotes

Lope de Vega was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist, regarded as one of the most prolific and important writers of the Spanish Golden Age. His works had immense influence on Spanish literature, especially in the development of modern drama. He transformed the Spanish theater, creating hundreds of plays and establishing new dramatic forms. Here are 12 of his quotes:

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Lope de Vega

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Lope de Vega

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

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Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.

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In ancient days they said truth had fled to heaven: attacked on every side, it's not been heard of since. We live in different ages, non-Spaniards and ourselves: they in the age of silver, we in the age of brass.

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Lord, what am I, that, with unceasing care, Thou didst seek after me, - that Thou didst wait, Wet with unhealthy dews, before my gate, And pass the gloomy nights of winter there?

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Since after all, it is the crowd who pays, Why not content them when you write your plays?

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Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

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To turn your face from clear proofs of deceit, To drink poison as if it were a soothing liquor, To disregard gain and delight in being injured. To believe that heaven can lie contained in hell; To devote your life and soul to being disillusioned; This is love; whoever has tasted it, knows.

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Lone I muse but feel not lonely, Covert solitude's my lore; For my company I only Want my thoughts and nothing more.

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