The Inquisition Quotes

“the french ambassador to spain, meeting cervantes,congratulated him on the great success and reputation gained by his "don quixote"; whereupon the author whispered in his ear: "had it not been for the inquisition, i should have made my book much more entertaining.”
― Isaac Disraeli

“The first public execution, an auto-da-fé, took place in Seville on February 6, 1481, only months after the Inquisition was begun. Six people were burned at stake. The priest Alonso de Hajeda trumphantly preached the sermon that day, but within days he was dead of the plague himself. In other times, the disappearances of the most vocal advocate of the Inquisition might have put an end to the enterprise. But Hajeda had unleashed something very big and very ugly.”
― Kirstin Downey, Plague Ship: The Untold Story of Captain Cook and His Legacy

“Infatuation nurtured by imagination enflamed by a portrait turns into love at first sight in Saint-Réal's nouvelle as it will in Schiller's play and Verdi's opera.”
― Maria-Cristina Necula Ph.D., The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations Of Historical Fictions