Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Gerald Brenan Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Apr 7, 1894
  • Died: Jan 19, 1987

Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE was a British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.

He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. He was awarded a CBE in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List in 1982.

The cliche is dead poetry. poetry

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

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

Thanksgiving November 28, 2024

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. 32 quotes from William Blake

32 quotes from William Blake

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. 6 thoughts from Franz Grillparzer

6 thoughts from Franz Grillparzer

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. 2 views from Storm Jameson

2 views from Storm Jameson

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

73 quotes from Victor Hugo