Quotes Gerald Brenan

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest cre...

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to be...

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thin...

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hand...

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate,...

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more ...

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden d...

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom ...

The cliche is dead poetry....

Those who have some means think that the most important thin...

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few ...

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appear...

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views an...

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt...

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies.  V...

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies.  V...

Everyone is a bore to someone.  That is unimporta...