“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.”
Teacher
“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”
PatienceAll Quotes by Gertrude Stein
“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.”
Work“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
Friendship“It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.”
Family“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.”
Dad“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”
Poetry“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”
Science“It is very easy to love alone.”
Alone“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
Art“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
Technology“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”
Politics“What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.”
Music“History takes time. History makes memory.”
History“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.”
Funny“Very likely education does not make very much difference.”
Education“We are always the same age inside.”
Age“Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.”
Women“The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.”
Money“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.”
Change“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”
War