Emilia Pardo Bazan Quotes & Sayings

God punishes sins, but the world I see only punishes lack of foresight and blunders. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

Mercenariness, pride, routine, and indolence are the capital sins of the Russian office-holder, and the first has so strong a hold upon him that the people say, "To make yourself understood by him you must talk of rubles;" adding that in Russia everybody robs but Christ, who cannot because his hands are nailed down. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

Spain also suffered an invasion of a foreign race, but she pulled herself together and sustained herself on a war-footing for seven centuries. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

A nation which receives a culture ready made, and not elaborated by itself, condemns itself to intellectual sterility; at most it can only hope to imitate well. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

The government makes use of the clergy as of one arm more, which, however, is now almost powerless through corruption. The Oriental church has no conception of the noble devotion which has honored Catholicism in the lives of Saint Thomas of Canterbury and Cardinal Cisneros. The — Emilia Pardo Bazan

Like a stripped and lifeless trunk the Oriental church produces no theologians, thinkers, or savants. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

Regent, Boris Godonof, riveted the chains of slavery upon the wrists of many millions of human beings in Russia. — Emilia Pardo Bazan

And what great thing have you done?" asked the peasant. "We? Oh, nothing." "Then to the oven!" he replied. The — Emilia Pardo Bazan