Father Vicente Orestes

Famous quotes containing the words father and/or orestes:

    “Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.”
    —Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)

    “The pangs of conscience, where are the pangs of conscience? Orestes and Clytemnestra, Reinhold doesn’t even know the names of those fine folk. He simply hopes, heartily and sincerely, that Franz is dead as a doornail and won’t be found.”
    —Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)