José de Cañizares

José de Cañizares y Suárez (4 July 1676 – 4 September 1750) was a Spanish playwright.

•          La mas fina
  Tiene una moneda rara
  Que cuando la dice, es oro,
  Que cuando la llora, es perlas
  Que cuando la escribe, es plata,
  Y es cobre cuando la trueca.
  • The most astute of women
    Has a currency so rare,
    That spoken it is golden:
    Pearls when in tears it falls,
    When written it is silver,
    All to copper turns in change.
  • El Dómine Lucas, act 1 — loq. Don Antonio (tr. Harbottle and Hume, 1907)

• T. B. Harbottle and Martin Hume (eds.) Dictionary of Quotations: Spanish (Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., 1907), pp. 96, 97, 118, 168, 182, 214, 261