Gerald Brenan quotes

Gerald Brenan was a British writer and Hispanist, renowned for his works on Spanish culture and history. His book "The Spanish Labyrinth" is considered a classic analysis of the background to the Spanish Civil War. He spent much of his life in Spain, deeply immersing himself in its society and literature. Here are 10 of his quotes:

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)

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

Gerald Brenan

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

Gerald Brenan

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

Gerald Brenan

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

Gerald Brenan

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

Gerald Brenan

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

Gerald Brenan

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

Gerald Brenan

The cliche is dead poetry.

Gerald Brenan

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

Gerald Brenan

Occupation: British Writer
Born: April 7, 1894
Died: January 19, 1987
Quotes count: 10
Wikipedia: Gerald Brenan

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