Quotes About Christina Stead

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.

when she was sitting staring into space, communing with her disillusion, his heart would be wrung by their unloving beauty.

What luck have I? I don't suppose you'll be anything but a cheap little accountant yourself—you haven't any chance to make money with a father like that.