Juan Carlos I of Spain/prince of Spain 1969%e2%80%931975

Famous quotes containing the words juan, carlos, spain and/or prince:

    “Is that the Craig Jurgesen that Teddy Roosevelt gave you?... And you used it at San Juan Hill defending liberty. Now you want to destroy it.”
    —Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)

    “Comforted
    a solace of ripe plums
    seeming to fill the air
    They taste good to her”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.”
    —Stefan Zweig (18811942)

    “When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)