Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.