Gerald Brenan Quotes

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
Gerald Brenan

Marriage, Happy, Husband

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
Gerald Brenan

Someone, Writer, Whom

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
Gerald Brenan

Ideas, Values, Importance

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
Gerald Brenan

Wisdom, Sense, Opinions

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
Gerald Brenan

Fool, Living, Old

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
Gerald Brenan

Older, Less, Seem

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Gerald Brenan

Someone, Everyone, Avoid

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
Gerald Brenan

Love, Cannot, Wish

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
Gerald Brenan

Age, Death, Talent

The cliche is dead poetry.
Gerald Brenan

Poetry, Dead, Cliche

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
Gerald Brenan

Love, Money, Important

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan

Few, Endure, Closer

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
Gerald Brenan

Fear, Bad, Others

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
Gerald Brenan

Business, Hurt, Him

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: 1894

Died: 1987

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