25 unforgettable quotes by playwright Jacinto Benavente

We review the best thoughts of the Spanish playwright.

Jacinto Benavente (Madrid, 1866 - 1954) was one of the most outstanding Spanish playwrights and film producers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

His immense and prolific work in the scenic field led him to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922.

Jacinto Benavente's famous quotes and quotations

Jacinto Benavente wrote works of all the dramaturgical genres: dramas, comedies, sainetes, tragedies, etc....... His expressiveness was based on the naturalness of the characters, the realism with which he worked the most complex plots. Moreover, experts agree in pointing out the exceptional quality of his works not only from the theatrical aspect, but also in the depth of the lexicon and his mastery of the Castilian language.

In today's article we have set out to compile the best famous quotes and phrases of Jacinto Benaventeto get closer to the life and work of this playwright from Madrid.

There is no dangerous reading. Evil never enters through the intelligence when the Heart is healthy.

A profound reflection on the benefits of reading.

2. Dictators can reform laws, but not customs.

Jacinto Benavente tells us in this sentence about the influence of culture in a society.

3. Love is like Don Quixote: when it comes to its senses, it is ready to die.

When we try to make love emerge from our rational part... all is lost.

4. Blessed are our imitators, for theirs will be all our faults!

A fundamental value in Benavente's work: originality.

5. Discipline consists of an imbecile making himself obeyed by those who are more intelligent.

A famous quote from Jacinto Benavente that shows us his free-thinking soul.

6. There is no such thing as sentiment; love is an occupation like any other.

A thought that can be interpreted in different ways.

7. When you do not think what you say is when you say what you think.

On sincerity.

8. In matters of love the mad are the most experienced. Of love, never ask the sane; the sane love sanely, which is like never having loved at all.

A necessary reflection on love and how it only expresses itself through not very rational ways.

9. The enemy only begins to be fearful when he begins to be right.

If your enemy has better arguments than you... start worrying.

10. The worst thing the bad guys do is force us to doubt the good guys.

A way of expressing that sometimes the powerful try to make citizens fight among themselves.

11. If murmuring the truth can still be the justice of the weak, slander can be nothing but the revenge of cowards.

Benavente shows us some of the keys to his ethical thinking.

12. There is nothing that despairs so much as to see our feelings misinterpreted.

Do you know what kinds of feelings exist?

13. If people heard our thoughts, few of us would escape being locked up as madmen.

Without the filter of rationalization, we could all be considered mentally deranged.

14. Irony is a sadness that cannot cry and smiles.

Knowing how to use irony and sarcasm is essential for a good playwright.

15. As in debts, there is no other honesty with faults than to pay them.

Another phrase of Jacinto Benavente in which he states his moral convictions.

16. Many believe that having talent is luck; no one believes that luck can be a matter of having talent.

What are your personal talents? These are the ones that can catapult you to success.

17. More men unite to share the same hatred than the same love.

To have an enemy in common tightens the ties more than anything else.

18. It is easier to be great than to have common sense.

A phrase that is self-explanatory.

19. A fixed idea always seems a great idea, not because it is great, but because it fills a whole brain.

The minds of geniuses are open and have the capacity to add more knowledge and experience. The same is not true of dogmatic minds.

20. He who is jealous, is never jealous for what he sees; what he imagines is enough.

There are different types of jealousy and jealous people are often jealous because of their propensity to imagine things that are not real.

21. True love is not known by what it demands, but by what it offers.

Benavente makes clear that true love tends to be supportive.

22. Money cannot make us happy, but it is the only thing that compensates us for not being happy.

A great reflection on the capacity of money to mobilize us.

23. Many good people who would be incapable of stealing our money, unscrupulously steal the time we need to earn it.

A criticism of the capitalist system that could have been a famous phrase of Karl Marx himself.

24. Honor is not won in a day so that in a day it can be lost. Whoever can cease to be honorable in an hour, has never been honorable.

Honor is a value that is distinguished by being consistent over time.

25. In the fight, the soldier is known; only in victory, the knight is known.

In different contexts we know the true character of each person.