Quotes About Gertrude

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.

In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.

When the Balfour Declaration was released to the public at the end of the year, Gertrude attacked it viciously. Sir Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, had written a letter to Lord Rothschild, leader of the Jewish community in England, promising "a national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration vowed not to prejudice "the civil and religious rights" of the Arabs already living in Palestine.

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.

Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens — his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey — had resemblances that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light — an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.

Ernest's mistake is to succeed by prudently respecting the rules of an old, well-known game; Gertrude's virtue is to succeed by sticking to the old, well-known game but in order to disrupt it and bend it to her purposes.

When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.

man had blond hair, all right, and he smiled and showed all his teeth.

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

That's a compliment, said Gertrude. I put all the compliments I receive into a little money-jug that has a slit in the side. I shake them up and down, and they rattle. There are not many yet - only two or three. (Chapter 6)

I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

I rubbed my face, trying to adjust to the new arsenal. Above us, Gertrude Hunt creaked, installing the cannon.

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

More recently, the intellectual historian Gertrude Himmelfarb has maintained that justice, reason, and the love of humanity "are, in fact, predominantly, perhaps even uniquely, Western values."19

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

To know to know to love her so.Four saints prepare for saints.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

pale, but resolute as Eponina's or Gertrude von der Wart's — and I think the martyrdom of endurance is worse than the martyrdom of action!