“Romance is everything.”
Romantic
“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.”
DadAll Quotes by Gertrude Stein
“Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.”
Women“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
Hope“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.”
Teacher“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.”
War“We are always the same age inside.”
Age“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
Technology“It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.”
Funny“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
Art“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”
War“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
Nature“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”
Poetry“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.”
Funny“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.”
Art“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.”
Death“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.”
Family“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“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.”
Business“This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.”
History“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
Friendship