41 Quotes by Gerald Brenan

The Spanish economic system is like a game of musical chairs, in which there are only half as many seats as there are performers.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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