Gertrude Stein Quotes
1874 – 1946
American writer and art collector who lived in Paris, author of 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas' and 'Paris France'.
25 quotesAbout Gertrude Stein on Wikipedia
“One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”
“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.”
“The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.”
“All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.”
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
“From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.”
“I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.”
“Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.”
“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”
“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”
“Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.”
“Politeness does not interfere with facts, politeness is just another fact.”
“Complications are always easy but another vision than that of all the world is very rare.”
“Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.”
