Christina Stead Quotes
Top 55 wise famous quotes and sayings by Christina Stead
Christina Stead Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.
I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
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.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual
masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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.
It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic