Quotes By Gertrude Stein

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

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

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

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

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

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

Remarks are not literature.

If you can do it then why do it?