Gertrude Quotes

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived. - Gertrude Stein

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. - Gertrude Stein

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth. - Gertrude Atherton

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. - Gertrude Stein

What was the use of my having come from Oakland, it was not natural to have come from there, yes, write about it if I like or anything, if I like, but not there, there is no there there. - Gertrude Stein

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? - Gertrude Stein

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. - Gertrude Jekyll

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. - Gertrude Stein

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

Well, she certainly hadn't a fair run for her money. - Gertrude Stein