The most famous lines from Don Juan Tenorio
The top 3 according to 81 votes from people: How those wretches shout! May lightning strike me if, once this letter's done, they don't pay dearly for their shouting! · Here is Don Juan Tenorio, and there's no man to match him. · Here is Don Juan Tenorio for anyone who wants something of him.. (Updated Aug 22, 2021.)
'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.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 11
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How those wretches shout! May lightning strike me if, once this letter's done, they don't pay dearly for their shouting!
Don Juan, the play's opening lines: Part I, Act I, scene I.
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Here is Don Juan Tenorio, and there's no man to match him.
Don Juan, his second poster, in Naples: Part I, Act I, scene XII.
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Here is Don Juan Tenorio for anyone who wants something of him.
Don Juan, the poster he hung in Rome: Part I, Act I, scene XII.
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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.
Don Juan, before fleeing: Part I, Act IV, scene X.
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Ah! Isn't it true, angel of love, that on this remote shore the moon shines purer and the air is sweeter?
Don Juan to Doña Inés, the sofa scene: Part I, Act IV, scene III.
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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.
Don Juan, Part I, Act I, scene XII.
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Perhaps I am dreaming of the shadows of an Eden!
Don Juan before Doña Inés's ghost: Part II, Act I.
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Wherever I went, I trampled reason, mocked virtue, cheated justice and betrayed women.
Don Juan, Part I, Act I, scene XII.
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Isn't it true, my gazelle, that they are breathing love?
Don Juan to Doña Inés: Part I, Act IV, scene III.
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Farewell, Inés of my soul.
Don Juan: Part I, Act III.
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A moment of contrition gives a soul salvation.
Doña Inés's ghost and Don Juan: Part II, Act III.
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Todos los noviembres lo ponían en la tele y mi abuela se sabía los versos del sofá de memoria jajaja