Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

- Christina Stead

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

- Christina Stead

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

- 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 d…

- Christina Stead

A woman is a hunter without a forest.

- Christina Stead

Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

- Christina Stead

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

- 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

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

- Christina Stead