Quotes by

Gerald Brenan

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

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

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

The cliche is dead poetry. – Gerald Brenan

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

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

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