Corsarios de Levante Quotes

“Para crear el infierno en el mar o en la tierra, no eran menester más que un español y el filo de una espada.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Corsarios de Levante

“We did so with the resignation of the peasant watching the hail flatten his crops, of the fisherman finding his nets empty, of the mother certain that her child will be born dead or will be carried off by a fever without ever leaving its cradle. Only the pampered and the comfortable and the cowardly, who live with their backs turned on the realities of life, rebel against the inevitable price that sooner or later we all have to pay.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Pirates of the Levant

“God,” he says, “gives us a very brief light in between two very long dark nights.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Pirates of the Levant

“There are as many deaths as there are people,” he replied. “No one ever really expects his death, although he may think he does. He merely acccompanies his own death and remains at its disposal.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Pirates of the Levant

“We spend our life on the edge of death,” the Moor Gurriato added after a while, “but many people do not know that. Only the assen, the wise men, know it.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Pirates of the Levant

“Y en el asedio de La Mámora del año 1628, cuando los moros intentaron tomarnos aquella plaza, quienes cavaban las trincheras y dirigían las obras de asedio eran gastadores ingleses. Que a los hijos de puta, como es sabido, Dios los cría y ellos se juntan”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Corsarios de Levante

“Life is written in each thing and each word,”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Pirates of the Levant: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste

“A man should travel while he can, should go to distant places and return wiser.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Pirates of the Levant: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste

“nothing is more human than cruelty”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Pirates of the Levant: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste

“depending upon one’s profession, thinking is not always the most comfortable of pastimes.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Pirates of the Levant: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste

“Vinieron la Verdad y la Justicia a la tierra; la una no halló comodidad por desnuda, ni la otra por rigurosa. Anduvieron mucho tiempo así, hasta que la Verdad, depuro necesitada, asentó con un mudo. La Justicia, desacomodada, anduvo por la tierra rogando a todos, y viendo que no hacían caso de ella y que le usurpaban su nombre para honrar tiranías, determinó volverse huyendo al Cielo.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Corsarios de Levante