Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE was a British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
quality bad-qualities ridiculous
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
giving age aging
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
wisdom views opinion
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
butterfly people leisure
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
boredom bores oneself
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.