Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

40 quotes

Gertrude Stein is an American author whose words have traveled far beyond their original audience. Whether reflecting on War or History, Gertrude Stein brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Browse 48 quotes by Gertrude Stein that cover ground from War, History, Funny, Family, and Women. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

“It is very easy to love alone.”

— Gertrude Stein

Alone

All Quotes by Gertrude Stein

“It is very easy to love alone.”

— Gertrude Stein

Alone

“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.”

— Gertrude Stein

Family

“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”

— Gertrude Stein

Nature

“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.”

— Gertrude Stein

Business

“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”

— Gertrude Stein

War

“That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.”

— Gertrude Stein

War

“Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.”

— Gertrude Stein

Women

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

Technology

“History takes time. History makes memory.”

— Gertrude Stein

History

“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

Funny

“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.”

— Gertrude Stein

Alone

“This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.”

— Gertrude Stein

History

“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 can accept it or reject it.”

— Gertrude Stein

Art

“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry

“The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.”

— Gertrude Stein

Money

“We are always the same age inside.”

— Gertrude Stein

Age

“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

Change

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

— Gertrude Stein

Science

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

— Gertrude Stein

Teacher

“It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.”

— Gertrude Stein

Future