Author: Gertrude Stein

Quotes

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

- Gertrude Stein

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

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

- Gertrude Stein

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.

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.

- Gertrude Stein

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

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

- Gertrude Stein

We are always the same age inside.

We are always the same age inside.

- Gertrude Stein

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

- Gertrude Stein

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

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

- Gertrude Stein

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

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

- Gertrude Stein

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

- Gertrude Stein

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