Quotes by Gertrude Stein

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

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

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

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

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

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.

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

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is 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.

Romance is everything.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

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.

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

“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”

“I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing”