20+ Madrid Quotes: Best Sayings about the Spanish Capital
Last Updated on 26th June 2024 by Sophie Nadeau
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Madrid is a buzzing and vibrant city which is most famous for its food markets, as being the home of Spanish Royalty, and for its world famous museums. Perfect to visit over the course of a long weekend, here are the best Madrid quotes to inspire your next trip!
Best visited during the European shoulder seasons, i.e. spring or fall (though since it never gets too cold during Madrid in winter, there’s no bad time to visit the city), Madrid is the gateway to Spanish culture. So whether you want to scout out hidden gems, eat tapas, or admire artwork, the city offers all this and more, even if you only have 24 hours in Madrid.
Best Madrid Quotes
“Madrid is what I call home, but also the States”. – Penelope Cruz
“There’s a lot of people from the States and from Madrid who feel a kinship and deeper understanding of what we have been going through”. – Sven Eriksson
“To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I’ve been doing that for 20 years”. – Norman Granz
“The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. 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”. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well”. – Diego Maradona
“I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with”. – Zinedine Zidane
“Madrid is a big city. It’s very dynamic and cosmopolitan”. – Xabi Alonso
“I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding”. – Louise Nurding
“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
“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
“The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. 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”. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Here is a city built in a wilderness. Philip II chose the site for no other reason than that it was the geographic centre of Spain”. – Gerald Brenan
“Madrid will be remembered as the time when North America and Europe came together to shape the course of a new century, … United by common purpose and shared values, the new alliance stands ready to shape a brighter, more secure future”. – Javier Solana
“In the political confusion and the torrid heat, I convinced myself that Madrid was the world’s stomach and that I had been chosen for the task of restoring this digestive organ to health.” – Leonora Carrington
“At best Madrid is a hole, but in rainy weather it is a place fit only to drown rats in”. – Henry Adams
“I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch”. – Antonio Banderas
“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
“I don’t see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows”. – Brooklyn Decker
“La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school”. – Pedro Almodovar
“I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America”. – Parminder Nagra
“I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey”. – Daisy Fuentes
“I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding”. – Louise Nurding
