Gertrude Stein Top 10 Quotes

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

Gertrude Stein (Reflections on the Atom Bomb, 1946)

Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.

Gertrude Stein (Useful Knowledge, 1928)

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Gertrude Stein (Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)

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 (Brewsie and Willie, 1946)

You look ridiculous if you dance 
You look ridiculous if you don't dance 
So you might as well dance.

Gertrude Stein

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein (What is English Literature, 1935)

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Gertrude Stein (Stanzas in Meditation, 1932)

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein (Quoted in The American Treasury, 1955)

One must dare to be happy.

Gertrude Stein

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

Gertrude Stein (Brewsie and Willie, 1946)