Gerald Brenan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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