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I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.
— Christina Stead
Strange is the influence of Marx on character.
— Christina Stead
Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
— Christina Stead
About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
— Christina Stead
Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
— Christina Stead
Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
— Christina Stead
Men never believe a woman can do anything.
— Christina Stead
There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.
— Christina Stead
I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
— Christina Stead
The more we know, the better our intuitions.
— Christina Stead
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
— Christina Stead
Each Australian is a Ulysses.
— Christina Stead
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
— Christina Stead
Pukka sahib or rank outsidergentleman or bounder
and it's accent, accent, all the way. — Christina Stead
People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.
— Christina Stead
A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
— Christina Stead
I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.
— Christina Stead
Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
— Christina Stead
Venus can see at night without eyes.
— Christina Stead
Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...
— Christina Stead
I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.
— Christina Stead
A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.
— Christina Stead
The great white city of brotherhood, Washington ...
— Christina Stead
Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.
— Christina Stead
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
— Christina Stead
Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectualmasters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe. — Christina Stead
The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.
— Christina Stead
A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
— Christina Stead
All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
— Christina Stead
It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
— Christina Stead
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
— Christina Stead
Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.
— Christina Stead
And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!
— Christina Stead
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
— Christina Stead
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.
— Christina Stead
Old age and youth cannot live together.
— Christina Stead
Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.
— Christina Stead
Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
— Christina Stead
It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.
— Christina Stead
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
— Christina Stead
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
— Christina Stead
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
— Christina Stead
A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
— Christina Stead
A woman is a hunter without a forest.
— Christina Stead
A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.
— Christina Stead
Money has no country.
— Christina Stead
Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.
— Christina Stead
Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
— Christina Stead
Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.
— Christina Stead