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Gertrude Quotes

Leslie Fiedler quote: "Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost..."
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. Leslie Fiedler
Clifton Fadiman quote: "Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly."
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. Clifton Fadiman
I never change. MRS. CHEVELEY: (elevating her eyebrows) Then life has taught you nothing? LADY CHILTERN: It has taught me that a person who has once been guilty of a dishonest and dishonorable action may be guilty of it a second time, and should be shunned. MRS. CHEVELEY: Whould that rule apply to everyone? LADY CHILTERN: Yes, to everyone, without exception. MRS. CHEVELEY: Then I am sorry for you, Gertrude, very sorry for you. Oscar Wilde
After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said. Gertrude Stein
Alice B. Toklas quote: "Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a..."
Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car... Alice B. Toklas
It is now obvious to us all that he has every objection," said Randall. "You know, you had very much better withdraw, my dear aunt. I feel sure that Uncle Henry's double life is going to be exposed. My own conviction is that he has been keeping a mistress for years."[...]Mrs. Lupton flushed. "You forget yourself, Randall. I am not going to stand here and see my husband insulted by your ill-bred notions of what is funny."Oh, I wasn't insulting him," said Randall. "Why shouldn't he have a ... Georgette Heyer
..and looking up into Abednego's face she fought a battle inside herself with the thing that it was, a sort of grabbing thing, and then she held Gertrude out to him. "You have her," she said. Elizabeth Goudge
In this case," said Randall unpleasantly, "it affords me purer gratification to dwell upon the thought of my dear Aunt Gertrude duped and betrayed."Your aunt doesn't suffer throught it!"What a pity!" said Randall. Georgette Heyer
Die Judenfrage,' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative formulation, since the question—as Gertrude Stein once famously if terminally put it—may be more absorbing than the answer. Of course one is flirting with calamity in phrasing things this way, as I learned in school when the Irish question was discussed by some masters as the Irish 'problem.' Again, the word 'solution' can be as neutral as the words 'question' or 'problem,' but... Christopher Hitchens
Ernest Hemingway quote: "You are all a lost generation.[with credit to Gertrude Stein]"
You are all a lost generation.[with credit to Gertrude Stein] Ernest Hemingway
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night. James Thurber
Alice B. Toklas quote: "This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said..."
This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand. Alice B. Toklas
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great. James Laughlin
Raymond Queneau quote: "It seems to me that an author who has determined very new..."
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. Raymond Queneau

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