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Pukka sahib or rank outsider—gentleman or bounder—and it's accent, accent, all the way.
(Christina Stead (1902-1983), Australian novelist. Jonathan Crow, in For Love Alone, ch. 22 (written 1944, published Virago, n.d.).
Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.)
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A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.
(Christina Stead (1902-1983), Australian novelist. Jules Bertillon, in House of All Nations, sc. 14 (written 1938, published Angus and Robertson, 1988).
Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.)
Read more quotations about / on: money
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Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.
(Christina Stead (1902-1983), Australian novelist. Jules Bertillon, in House of All Nations, sc. 68 (written 1938, published Angus and Robertson, 1988).
Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.)
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
(Christina Stead (1902-1983), Australian novelist. Jules Bertillon, in House of All Nations, sc. 11 (written 1938, published Angus and Robertson, 1988).
Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.)
Read more quotations about / on: imagination
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If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go round.
(Christina Stead (1902-1983), Australian novelist. Jules Bertillon, in House of All Nations, sc. 12 (written 1938, published Angus and Robertson, 1988).
Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.)
Read more quotations about / on: money, world
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Money has no country.
(Christina Stead (1902-1983), Australian novelist. Jules Bertillon, in House of All Nations, sc. 26 (written 1938, published Angus and Robertson, 1988).
Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.)
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There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.
(Christina Stead (1902-1983), Australian novelist. Letty Fox: Her Luck, ch. 27 (written 1946, published Virago, n.d.).
Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.)
Read more quotations about / on: women
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