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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

Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare. — 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

Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born? — Christina Stead

Each Australian is a Ulysses. — Christina Stead

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness. — Christina Stead

Pukka sahib or rank outsider
gentleman 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

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on. — Christina Stead

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow. — 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, ineffectual
masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe. — Christina Stead

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day. — Christina Stead

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination. — Christina Stead

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory. — 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