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.

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

The cliche is dead poetry. poetry