Christina Stead - Man Quotes

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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

Christina Stead

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

Christina Stead

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

Christina Stead

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

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