Quotes by Gertrude Stein

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

It is very easy to love alone.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

History takes time. History makes memory.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.