70 Bullfights Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous bullfights quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational bullfights quotes. Hopefully, these bullfights quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your bullfights knowledge!
Famous Bullfights Quotes
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. — Ernest Hemingway
Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art — Charles Bukowski
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters. — Ernest Hemingway
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. — Elbert Hubbard
It’s easy to scare a bull from a window. — Italian Proverbs
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. — William Shakespeare
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity. — Margaret Halsey
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. — Will Rogers
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. — Anna Julia Cooper
We put on fights between the best fighters; we don't put on freak shows. — Dana White
Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species. — Andrew Vachss
Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight. — Sugar Ray Robinson
It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us. — Alexis Arguello
Short Bullfights Quotes
- I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan. — Javier Bardem
- ["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t. — Zelda Fitzgerald
- The marathon is like a bullfight. — Alberto Salazar
- My father was a bullfighter. — Paz Vega
- Bullfighters are Seville's heroes. — Paz Vega
- We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer! — Paz Vega
- In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull. — Bette Ford
- I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. — John Steinbeck
- You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull. — Julian Schnabel
- A bullfighter must have courage, skill, and grace. And of these courage is the most important. — Maia Wojciechowska
People Writing About Bullfights
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Ernest Hemingway |
812 | 11022 |
 Paz Vega |
33 | 49 |
 Charles Bukowski |
781 | 6284 |
 Elbert Hubbard |
460 | 4958 |
 Italian Proverbs |
108 | 1891 |
 William Shakespeare |
4052 | 36000 |
More Bullfights Quotes
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth. — William S. Burroughs
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting. — Ingrid Newkirk
But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working. — Robert Klein
I visited Eduardo Miura’s ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem. — Ferruccio Lamborghini
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics? — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting. — Elayne Boosler
[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many. — Harold Wilson
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. — Erica Jong
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. — Erica Jong
It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though. — Bette Ford
For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play. — Bette Ford
One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere. — Bette Ford
You kill, it's part of your world as a bullfighter, it's a natural part of your world, and then you leave that world and it becomes unnatural. — Bette Ford
Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it. — Albert Brooks
I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy. — Anthony Bourdain
I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges. — Langston Hughes
Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I would want to acknowledge is that perhaps the tension, the crucial tension, isn't necessarily between the view of bullfighting as a tradition versus as an art form, but between the values inside the ring and the values outside the ring. — Bette Ford
There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone. — A. E. Hotchner
I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia. — Bette Ford
Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values. — Bette Ford
I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction. — Bette Ford
I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to it. So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not. — Bette Ford
And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, which they'll soon tear down. — Frank O'Hara
In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot.As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because in. — Carly Fiorina
In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death - a fighting bull with horns as weapons - is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right. — Maia Wojciechowska
Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull. — John F. Kennedy
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular: In proportion as the manners, customs, and amusements of a nation are cruel and barbarous, the regulations of its penal code will be severe. In proportion as men delight in battles, bullfights, and combats of gladiators, will they punish by hanging, burning, and the rack. — William Strunk, Jr.
Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. — Roland Barthes
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