Gertrude Quotes

22 quotes by 22 authors

Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having… — Sheridan Morley
Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and… — Roddy Piper
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly — Clifton Fadiman
Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have… — Edward Abbey
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents.'… — Jack Kerouac
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. — Leslie Fiedler
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… — Diana Vreeland
ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start… — Frederick Buechner
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but… — Gertrude Stein
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control… — James A. Baldwin
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the… — James Laughlin
Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these… — Peter Golenbock
I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping… — Steven Morrissey
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,… — Jerry Saltz
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go… — James Thurber
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein] — Ernest Hemingway
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. — Anne Carson
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said,… — Dorothy Parker
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey -… — Eleanor Perenyi
This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand. — Alice B. Toklas

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22 authors contributed a total of 22 Gertrude Quotes as follows: