19 ordspråk av Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan föddes den April 7th 1894 och dog den 19 January 1987 - English writer
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 As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more. |
| Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying ourselves. |
| Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. |
| I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. |
| In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. |
| The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. |
| The cliche is dead poetry. |
| The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions. |
| Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. |
| We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. |
| We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them |
| We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Det är julafton om 321 dagar!
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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