Quotes from Gertrude Stein

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Romance is everything.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

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

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.