Lope de Vega's most famous lines (with the work they come from)
The top 3 according to 68 votes from people: To believe that a heaven fits inside a hell, / to give your life and soul to a disillusion: / this is love; whoever has tasted it knows. · Sometimes what goes against the rules / pleases the taste for that very reason. · You tell me not to write, or not to live? / Make my love stop feeling, / and I will make my pen stop writing.. (Updated Jan 30, 2022.)
"This is love: whoever has tasted it knows", "Who killed the Commander? Fuenteovejuna, sir" and "Let whoever can understand me; I understand myself": the most quoted verses and sayings of Spain's "Phoenix of Wits", each with the play, sonnet or book it comes from.
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Top 15
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To believe that a heaven fits inside a hell, / to give your life and soul to a disillusion: / this is love; whoever has tasted it knows.
Sonnet "Various effects of love".
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Sometimes what goes against the rules / pleases the taste for that very reason.
The New Art of Writing Plays (1609).
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You tell me not to write, or not to live? / Make my love stop feeling, / and I will make my pen stop writing.
Sonnet "To Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola".
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Oh freedom, great treasure, / for there is no good prison, / even in golden shackles!
Quoted in Luis Señor, Diccionario de citas, p. 322.
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Jealousy is the child of love, / but a bastard child, I confess.
The Star of Seville.
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I want to make myself understood without saying anything. / Let whoever can understand me; I understand myself.
Sonnet "Estoy sin ocasión desconfiada".
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"Who killed the Commander?" "Fuenteovejuna, sir." "And who is Fuenteovejuna?" "All of us, as one!"
Fuenteovejuna (c. 1612–1614).
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I am king of my own will, / no business takes it from me, / and to be rich in leisure / is the height of happiness.
The Peasant in His Nook (c. 1611).
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To rein in a woman is to set limits on the sea.
The Lady Simpleton (1613), act III.
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Whoever longs to die is afraid of life.
Los enredos de Celauro, act III.
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But alas, you do not hear me; / yet life is short: / living, everything is lacking; / dying, everything is too much.
Poem "Pobre barquilla mía", in La Dorotea (1632).
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There is no perfect creature / unless at its conception / two wills are joined.
The Knight of Olmedo (c. 1620).
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For though it may take away my hope, / it cannot take away my thoughts.
Servir con mala estrella.
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Truth is ashamed of nothing except being hidden.
Shepherds of Bethlehem (1612), book I.
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Harmony is pure love, / for love is concord.
Fuenteovejuna (c. 1612–1614).
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