58 Quotes by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall.

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.

They say that the best counsel is that of woman.

And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.