“Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.”
Source: Miss Herbert (the suburban wife)
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Famous Christina Stead Quotes
Source: House of All Nations
“Each Australian is a Ulysses.”
Source: For Love Alone
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
“Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.”
Source: A little tea, a little chat
Source: A little tea, a little chat
Source: A little tea, a little chat
“Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.”
Source: A little tea, a little chat
“And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!”
Source: House of All Nations
Source: House of All Nations
“All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.”
Source: House of All Nations
“Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.”
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
Source: House of All Nations
“A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.”
“Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.”
Source: House of All Nations
“Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.”
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
Source: A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973
“A woman is a hunter without a forest.”
Source: For Love Alone
“Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.”
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
Source: Letty Fox: Her Luck
“I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.”
Source: Letty Fox: Her Luck
Source: House of All Nations
“A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.”
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
Source: The beauties and furies
Source: I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist
“The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.”
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
“A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.”
Source: Letty Fox: Her Luck
“Old age and youth cannot live together.”
Source: For Love Alone
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
“It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.”
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
“If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.”
Source: House of All Nations
“Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.”
Source: For Love Alone
“The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.”
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
Source: A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973
Source: House of All Nations
“People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.”
Source: House of All Nations
Source: For Love Alone
“Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.”
Source: For Love Alone
“Men never believe a woman can do anything.”
Source: House of All Nations
Source: I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist
“Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.”
Source: House of All Nations
“A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.”
Source: Letty Fox: Her Luck
Source: House of All Nations
Source: For Love Alone