Esquilache (1989)

Adolfo Marsillach: Carlos III

Quotes 

• Carlos III : They may prefer a tyrant, but we came to reform, not to tyrannize.

• Carlos III : When I met you in Naples, how long ago?

  Esquilache : Fifteen years, Sir.

  Carlos III : Do you know what I thought then? Here is a man who does his sums with his head, and undoes them with his heart.

• Carlos III : There must be some key that opens the door of understanding for the Spaniards. This determination to systematically destroy anything that is built is not getting us anywhere.