Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
Novelist
Politician
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Rockdale City
Contrary
Misery
Revolution
Beginning
Quite
Nothing
Spelled
Time
Revolt
Rare
More quotes by Christina Stead
Each Australian is a Ulysses.
Christina Stead
About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
Christina Stead
The more we know, the better our intuitions.
Christina Stead
Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.
Christina Stead
You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.
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
All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
Christina Stead
The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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
Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.
Christina Stead
Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
Christina Stead
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
Christina Stead
The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.
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 waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
Christina Stead
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
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
Christina Stead
The Chinese are a knowing people and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.
Christina Stead
A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
Christina Stead
Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
Christina Stead