Gertrude Quotations

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others...

Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.