Quotes by Gertrude Stein
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
Money is always there, but the pockets change.
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Technology
... a master-piece ... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Romance is everything.
What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they c...
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
