Gerald Brenan People Quotations

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

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.

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.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

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