# The most famous lines from Don Juan Tenorio

'How those wretches shout!', the Rome poster, the sofa scene and the moment of contrition: lines from José Zorrilla's 1844 drama that are repeated every November, with their act, checked against the text.

- 81 votes · 11 items
- Aug 22, 2021 · Adrián
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## Top 11

1. **How those wretches shout! May lightning strike me if, once this letter's done, they don't pay dearly for their shouting!** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — Don Juan, the play's opening lines: Part I, Act I, scene I.
2. **Here is Don Juan Tenorio, and there's no man to match him.** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Don Juan, his second poster, in Naples: Part I, Act I, scene XII.
3. **Here is Don Juan Tenorio for anyone who wants something of him.** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Don Juan, the poster he hung in Rome: Part I, Act I, scene XII.
4. **I called on heaven and it did not hear me; and since it closes its gates to me, let heaven answer for my deeds on earth, not I.** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Don Juan, before fleeing: Part I, Act IV, scene X.
5. **Ah! Isn't it true, angel of love, that on this remote shore the moon shines purer and the air is sweeter?** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Don Juan to Doña Inés, the sofa scene: Part I, Act IV, scene III.
6. **I went down to the huts, I went up to the palaces, I scaled the cloisters, and everywhere I left a bitter memory of me.** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Don Juan, Part I, Act I, scene XII.
7. **Perhaps I am dreaming of the shadows of an Eden!** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Don Juan before Doña Inés's ghost: Part II, Act I.
8. **Wherever I went, I trampled reason, mocked virtue, cheated justice and betrayed women.** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Don Juan, Part I, Act I, scene XII.
9. **Isn't it true, my gazelle, that they are breathing love?** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Don Juan to Doña Inés: Part I, Act IV, scene III.
10. **Farewell, Inés of my soul.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Don Juan: Part I, Act III.
11. **A moment of contrition gives a soul salvation.** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — Doña Inés's ghost and Don Juan: Part II, Act III.

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