Villa Quotes
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Men will not forget that Pancho Villa was loyal to the cause of the people.
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More Villa Quotes
The brutality and uncouthness of many of the revolutionary leaders has not prevented them from becoming popular myths. Villa still gallops through the north, in songs and ballads; Zapata dies at every popular fair. ... It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to hange everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.
pancho villa— Octavio Paz, as quoted in Staging Politics in Mexico: The Road to Neoliberalism (2004) by Stuart Alexander Day, p. 38
Tengo el deber de informarle que Pancho Villa se encuentra en todas partes y en ninguna a la vez.
pancho villa— I have the duty to inform you that Pancho Villa is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
— A report from an officer in Venustiano Carranza's army, mentioned in the book ¡Vamonos con Pancho Villa! (2007) by Rafael Muñoz.
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached Villa and he’d never have written a word.
Alan Bennett— Diary entry for June 27, 1988, p. 177
Then in town let me live, and in town let me die For I own I can't relish the country, not I. If I must have a Villa in summer to dwell, Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall.
— Captain Morris, The Contrast.
You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my Villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it I have deceived you; I have merely sold you what was already your own.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book IV, Epigram 79.
