Spanish Empire/twilight of The Global Empire 1800%e2%80%931899

Famous quotes containing the words spanish, empire, twilight and/or global:

    “The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    “Be near me when I fade away,
    To point the term of human strife,
    And on the low dark verge of life
    The twilight of eternal day.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.”
    —Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)