Proper noun
Gertrude
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face. Randall Jarrell
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. Randall Jarrell
People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm: all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others... Randall Jarrell
I am used to being mistaken for Miriam Margolyes; Private Eye noticed that, and once I was even taken for Gertrude Stein. But that was at Chelsea Flower Show where uncertainty of identity is in the air. Tom Baker
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]. Ernest Hemingway
Gertrude knew better than this, of course, but we all know better than we know better, or act as if we did. Randall Jarrell