Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.
Gertrude Stein
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
Gertrude Stein
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Gertrude Stein
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
Gertrude Stein
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
Gertrude Stein
It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein
There is no there there.
Gertrude Stein
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude Stein
I don’t envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
Gertrude Stein
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
Gertrude Stein
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Gertrude Stein
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
Gertrude Stein
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Gertrude Stein
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
Gertrude Stein
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
Gertrude Stein
A masterpiece… may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Gertrude Stein
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
Gertrude Stein
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein
Literature – creative literature – unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Gertrude Stein
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
Gertrude Stein
Remarks are not literature.
Gertrude Stein
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
Gertrude Stein
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?’
Gertrude Stein
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
Gertrude Stein
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Gertrude Stein
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
Gertrude Stein
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
Gertrude Stein
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
Gertrude Stein
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
Gertrude Stein