Quotes & Sayings About Matadors

To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For some reason, all the best matadors were Fascists. — George Orwell

At the heart of all romanticism is suffering — Brin-Jonathan Butler

But, Foley, my lad, it isn't beauty per se that makes wire-walking Zen or makes it art. It's the extremity of the risks that are assumed by each exquisite gesture, each impossible somersault. Here's a more extreme version of the dangerous beauty bullfights used to possess before the matadors became preening cowards and stacked the desk against the beasts. We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake, and I mean something more consequential than money or reputation. The great value of a high-wire act is that it has no practical value. The fact that so much skill and effort and courage can be directed into something so ostensibly useless is what makes it useful. That's what affords it the power to lift us out of context and carry us-elsewhere. — Tom Robbins

It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays; for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists. They — George Orwell

The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter. — Muhammad Ali