Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest. Born when the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further, his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth17 January 1600
CountrySpain
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.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.
At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore.
All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.
No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.
The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.