Gertrude Stein quotes

Romance is everything.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

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.

It is very easy to love alone.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

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.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

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

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

We are always the same age inside.

It is very easy to love alone.

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

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

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

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

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.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.