A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
About Gerald Brenan
Edward FitzGerald “Gerald” Brenan, CBE, MCwas a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.
Brenan is probably best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for a mainly autobiographical work South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village.
More quotes from Gerald Brenan
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
British writer and Hispanist
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
British writer and Hispanist
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.
British writer and Hispanist
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
British writer and Hispanist
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
British writer and Hispanist
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.
British writer and Hispanist
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
British writer and Hispanist
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
British writer and Hispanist
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
British writer and Hispanist
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
British writer and Hispanist
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
British writer and Hispanist
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
British writer and Hispanist
The cliche is dead poetry.
British writer and Hispanist
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
British writer and Hispanist