Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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
Youth
Future
Speculating
Tory
Conservatism
More quotes by Christina Stead
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
Christina Stead
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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
Intuition is not infallible it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
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
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
Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.
Christina Stead
Men never believe a woman can do anything.
Christina Stead
A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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
I do not want to go to heaven I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.
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
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
Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
Christina Stead
Each Australian is a Ulysses.
Christina Stead
A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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
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
Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
Christina Stead
A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
Christina Stead