Quotes by Gertrude Stein

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

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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

Romance is everything.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.