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.

Quote by Gertrude Stein

Topics: Gertrude Stein Quotes

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just...

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just...

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and...

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and...

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world...

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world...

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four...

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four...

There is no there there.

There is no there there.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed...

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed...

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still...

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still...

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about...

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about...

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage...

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage...

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to...

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to...

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by...

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by...