130+ Best Spain Quotes and Spain Instagram Captions

Best Spain Quotes

“Any reasonable, sentient person who looks at Spain, comes to Spain, eats in Spain, drinks in Spain, they’re going to fall in love. Otherwise, there’s something deeply wrong with you. This is the dream of all the world.” – Anthony Bourdain

“In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.” – Federico Garcia Lorca

“Spain is an overflow of sombreness, a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.“ – Wyndham Lewis

“For one person who likes Spain, there are a dozen who prefer books on her.“ – Ernest Hemingway

“I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!” – George Orwell

“Cubism is a part of daily life in Spain, it is in Spanish architecture. The architecture of other countries always follows the line of the landscape. but Spanish architecture always cuts the lines of the landscape.“ – Gertrude Stein

“Spain is a beautiful country with rich architecture and a huge cultural heritage. Arguably it has it all: mountains, a stunning coastline, and urban life, plus agriculture, mining, and industry.” – Norman Foster

“In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.” – Francis Parkman

“I tried to photograph the mysterious, true, and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its truth; and the fullest and most intense moments in the lives of these characters, as simple as they are irresistible, with all their inner strength.“ – Cristina Garcia Rodero

“I love Spain. It’s my favorite country that I’ve been to and I’ve traveled quite a bit. I’ve been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.” – Bitsie Tulloch

Unique Spain captions for Instagram

Spain, I’m yours!

Spain is in the Palma of my hand.

Living off sangria and siestas.

It’s Paella day.

Siesta time!

“I have been in Spain a lot of years and I have a lot of love for the country.“ – Keylor Navas

Spain is my happy place.

On the search for the best sangria in Spain.

I found paradise in Spain.

Watching the sunset over the Spanish horizon is something I’ll never forget.

Anytime is a good time for Spain.

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More Spain captions for Instagram and puns

Might as Guell head to Barcelona for the weekend.

Oh my Gaudi!

Livin’ for a siesta.

Spain = Siestas and fiestas.

Fiesta like there’s no Mañana.

The punishment is a bit Seville.

I Spained my ankle.

Don’t be a Spain in the butt.

I left my heart in Spain.

Windmill we make it to Spain?

Funny quotes about Spain

“In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That’s my plan.“ – Penelope Cruz

“Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent.” – Antonio Banderas

“What do you call a small mosque in Spain? – A mosquito!“ – Unknown 

“In Spain, people understand football is a fun game, and enjoyment comes first. After that, Business follows.“ – Emmanuel Adebayor

“In Spain, the best way to keep a secret is to write a book.“ – Manuel Azaña

“If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It’s an alien world to me.“ – Cedric Bixler-Zavala

“What’s funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.“ – Christie Hefner

“Where to Bees go-to party in Spain?“ – Ibiza

“Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.“ – Erica Jong

“In Spain, if you don’t follow football, you’re dead. You don’t have a conversation.“ – Garbine Muguruza

“There is no nightlife in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not nightlife. That is delaying the day.” – Ernest Hemingway

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Short quotes about Spain

“Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.“ – Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.“ – John Masefield

“Nature and man are opposed in Spain.“ – Gertrude Stein

“Like Spain, I am bound to the past.“ – William S. Burroughs

“Oh, lovely Spain! renown’d, romantic land!“ – Rochdale

“Spain, the beautiful country of wine and songs.“ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you come from Spain, you have to play football.“ – Enrique Iglesias

“Spain is the only place in the world where 2 and 2 do not add up to 4” – Duke of Wellington

“All my life is in Spain. I will stay.“ – Paz Vega

“Being a film director in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.” – Pedro Almodóvar

“I loved everything about Spain – the people, the language, and the food!“ – Karlie Kloss

Inspirational quotes about Spain

“Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I’ve been and gone, wherever I have gone. The blues are all the same.“ – Jackson C. Frank

“The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably they were the richest.“ – Jose Mujica

“Hours to the north and Toledo to the south, a fine road to Avila and a fine road to Segovia, which is no distance from La Granja, it makes you feel very badly, all question of immortality aside, to know that you will have to die and never see it again.“ – Ernest Hemingway

“If you’d be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.“ – Benjamin Franklin

“…Like a good Spaniard, he needed words as much as he needed money, and the words he wanted had to be the most expansive and inflated available. In Spain, words form a kind of currency which must be spent freely, and to do this is not easy for an American, yet not to do it in Spain is to miss the spirit of human relationships.” – James A. Michener

“My favorite setting is England because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it’s fabulous and so romantic.“ – Diana Hamilton

“Spain is not here, it is in America. In Mexico is the purest essence of Spain” – Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclan

“For austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardors, and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.“ – Helen Waddell

“The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.“ – Jose Andres

“One of the gifts that the Camino offers is the freedom to be yourself. This freedom is liberating.“ – Jane V. Blanchard

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Quotes about life in Spain

“I haven’t changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I’ve had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.“ – Charo

“I’ll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I’ll have an hour just resting, to recover. In Spain, they all have siestas, even businessmen.“ – Anthony Joshua

“Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voice, like when you’re a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.“ – Jordi Molla

“Because the Spanish eat so crazily late – Anybody who’s been to Spain has had the experience of sitting down at 9:30 PM to find themselves the first customer in the restaurant. They tend to favor an early evening drink and a nibble to keep them going.“ – John Lanchester

“I cook croquetas, and I eat Jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.“ – Paz Vega

“I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.” – Colm Toibin

“I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It’s a big part of my life.“ – Astrid Berges-Frisbey

“I’ve spent important times of my life in Spain and Greece, and various deep things happened there – falling in love, stuff like that.“ – Matt Bellamy

“If you come from Spain, you have to play football.“ – Enrique Iglesias

“I was in Spain, with Mallorca and Getafe, which were exceptional experiences.“ – Michael Laudrup

Quotes about Spanish food

“Spain is more vegan-friendly than you’ve been led to believe. The truth is, most places are.“ – Wendy Werneth

“Spain has some of the richest culinary traditions and truly appreciates food that is simply prepared with top-notch ingredients.“ – Emeril Lagasse

“You go to a restaurant in the state and kids have these game boards at the table. You don’t see that in Italy or Spain. It’s not because they can’t afford to buy them, it’s because that’s not what eating together as a family is about.“ – Emeril Lagasse

“I’m learning with my mum how to cook more Spanish food. I’m trying to make a good paella, but that’s a real art.“ – Daniel Bruhl

“My chocolate is special because it’s real. My pistachios are from Italy, and the almonds are from Spain. We make our own marzipan. If I sell a product that says ‘raspberry,’ it’s real raspberry. My plan was to make the best product possible and be the least expensive of the best chocolate makers. That’s still our position.“ – Jacques Torres

“There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.“ – Mario Batali

“I was curious about the foreign foods I would come to know as chorizo, fire-roasted piquillo peppers, La Mancha saffron sealed in blue clay jars, Serrano ham, and pickled eggplant. That kitchen smelled like a cross between my maestro’s kitchen and Borgia’s. It had the clean airiness I was accustomed to, but a tang of briny olives and smoked meats flavored the air.” – Elle Newmark

“Not to mention the endless Saturday afternoon lunches with the entire family, savoring calamares, gazpacho, pescaito frito, flounder seviche, solomillo al queso, a fillet in blue cheese sauce, and arroz con leche.” – Kate Jacobs

“In Spain, you can go into any Tapas bar, and you’ll see anchovies all over the menu.“ – Jose Andres

“Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture, and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it’s a love of food and drink.“ – Jose Andres

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Travel quotes about Spain

“I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.” – John Edward Masefield

“Any reasonable, sentient person who looks at Spain, comes to Spain, eats in Spain, drinks in Spain, they’re going to fall in love. Otherwise, there’s something deeply wrong with you. This is the dream of all the world.“ – Anthony Bourdain

“The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.” – Christopher Columbus

“Allow me to state here how much I love Barcelona, an admirable city, a city full of life, intense, a port open to the past and future.” – Le Corbusier

“If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.“ – Joaquin Sorolla

“In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully.” – Honor Tracy

“Everyone who has visited the Basque country longs to return; it is a blessed land..” – Victor Hugo

“I love dancing and music from Latin cultures. I went to a flamenco show in Spain, and it completely took my breath away.“ – Torrey De

“On the Camino, I walk around with a silly love smile; everything is brilliant and marvelous.“ – Elana Franganillo Ortiz

“I love anywhere new and different. That’s the fun of travel. I’ve always loved driving through Spain, France and Italy – sometimes in an Alfa Spider.“ – Rory Bremner

Quotes about Madrid

“Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we’d leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we’d walk through the Plaza Mayor.“ – Emilio Estevez

“To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time, your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.“ – Ernest Hemingway

“Madrid seems to be in a hurry to say everything.“ – Javier Marias

“Because, Madrid, in reality, is nothing special. It does not have a great river, and hardly any skyscrapers. No channels, no lakes. Neither glorious ruins, nor sea. Madrid lacks a lot of things. But it has people in the streets. The unexpected corner. The variety. The contrast. The constant animation. And its customs. It is worth getting up early – for once – to live one day of the life of Madrid.“ – Miguel Mihura

“As always in summer, Madrid has become unanimously calm, but it appreciates our permanence.“ – Mario Benedetti

“Madrid is having nothing and having everything.“ – Ramón Gómez de la Serna

“Madrid is a big city. It’s very dynamic and cosmopolitan.“ – Xabi Alonso

“From Madrid to heaven, and in heaven, a little hole to see it” – Unknown

“Madrid is everyone’s homeland because in their small world, they are children of equal affection, natural and foreign.“ – Calderon de la Barca

“I adore Madrid. It’s my city. If I ever move, it will only be for work. Whenever I travel, I always want to get back home.“ – Maria Valverde

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Quotes about Barcelona

“I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.“ – Daniel Bruhl

“Barcelona is a great city and Spain is a great country to live in.” – Shakira

“Traveling through Spain and finally arriving in Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing with a bottle of champagne.“ – James Michener

“Barcelona, ​​the bells ring, Barcelona, ​​open your doors to the world.“ – Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe

“I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it’s a woman who’s extremely vain. One of the great Catalan poets, Joan Maragall, wrote this famous poem in which he called Barcelona the great enchantress of some kind of sorceress, and in which the city has this dark enticing presence that seduces and lures people. I think Barcelona has a lot of that.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I’ve used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 – things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don’t lead there, whatever.“ – Lydia Lunch

“Because it’s so strong that I can only live you in the distance and write you a song. I love you Barcelona.“ – Giulia y Los Tellarini 

“Barcelona, a fountain of courtesy, the shelter of strangers, hospice to the poor, land of the valiant, avenger of the offended, reciprocator of firm friendship, a city unique in its location and beauty.“ – Miguel de Cervantes

“Barcelona is the city that screams, that machine, that fights and that falls in love.“ – Irene Polo

“Even the moon was embarrassed by the beauty of Barcelona.” – Andrew Barger

Famous Spanish Proverbs

Money does not last for fools.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 

There is not a worse deaf person than the one who doesn’t want to hear.

The habit doesn’t make the monk.

The tongue doesn’t have a bone, but it cuts the thickest thing.

Bread, wine, and meat … make good blood.

Olive oil is a gunsmith, a watchmaker, and a healer.

Eating without working should not be tolerated.

God helps those who get up early.

The devil knows more due to being old than from being the devil.

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Quotes by famous Spanish

“In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.“ – Felipe Vi

“My absent eyes never deserve to see your wall, your towers and your river, your plain and mountains, oh homeland, oh flower of Spain!” – Góngora

“God is Spanish and is on the side of the nation these days.” – Conde duque de Olivares

“The Spaniard who has not been to America does not know what Spain is.” – Federico Garcia Lorca

“There is no Spanish town, small or large, that does not contain a lesson.” – Azorín

“If we Spaniards spoke only and exclusively about what we know, there would be a great silence that would allow us to think.” – Manuel Azana

“The history of bullfighting is linked to that of Spain, so much so that without knowing the first, it will be impossible to understand the second.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Spain of my loves, how much I hate you». That simple phrase responds to the feeling I have when I think of this precious, beautiful, rich, multicultural country, with such a long history… but without culture. And what is worse: very specialized in devouring its best children.“ – Luis Eduardo Aute

“Spain is a land where there are few things, but where each one seems to be in a substantive and eternal way.” – Jorge Luis Borges

“In Spain, bread may be lacking, but ingenuity and good humor do not end.” – Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

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