Famous Gertrude Stein Quotes

  • If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. – Gertrude Stein

    If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.– Gertrude Stein

  • We are always the same age inside. – Gertrude Stein

    We are always the same age inside. – Gertrude Stein

  • For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. – Gertrude Stein

    For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.– Gertrude Stein

  • Nature and man are opposed in Spain. – Gertrude Stein

    Nature and man are opposed in Spain.– Gertrude Stein

  • I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. – Gertrude Stein

    I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.– Gertrude Stein

  • I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do. – Gertrude Stein

    I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.– Gertrude Stein

  • It is very easy to love alone. – Gertrude Stein

    It is very easy to love alone.– Gertrude Stein

  • Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. – Gertrude Stein

    Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. – Gertrude Stein