Quotes by Stein, Gertrude

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. >>

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. >>

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you >>

Quotations about Middle Class

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this >>

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class mora >>

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. >>

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Stein, Gertrude