In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. — Gerald Brenan
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. — Gerald Brenan
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
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — 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
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
I am thirty-three – the age of the good sans-culotte jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. — Gerald Brenan