41 Quotes by Gerald Brenan

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

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

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

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.