Christina Stead Quotes

1902–1983 Australia

Christina Stead (17 July 1902 – 31 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterizations. She was a committed Marxist, although she was never a member of the Communist Party.

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A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

House of All Nations (1938)

If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go round.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland—the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend—the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christina Stead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.