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

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