49 Quotes By Gertrude Stein


This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude Stein on history

History takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude Stein on history

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein on hope

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.
Gertrude Stein on hope

It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein on love

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Gertrude Stein on marriage

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 on men

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 on men

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 on money

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Gertrude Stein on money

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
Gertrude Stein on music

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein on nature

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Gertrude Stein on patience

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 on peace

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein on poetry

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein on politics

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein on religion

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Gertrude Stein on religion

Romance is everything.
Gertrude Stein on romantic

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein on science