Jude Morgan Quotes

You cannot believe everything you hear

~ Jude Morgan

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

~ Jude Morgan

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

~ Jude Morgan

The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.

~ Jude Morgan

When you are in love- everything is romantic

~ Jude Morgan

Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things

~ Jude Morgan

Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.

~ Jude Morgan

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

~ Jude Morgan

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

~ Jude Morgan

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

~ Jude Morgan

She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.

~ Jude Morgan

That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.

~ Jude Morgan

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

~ Jude Morgan

None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

~ Jude Morgan

No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.

~ Jude Morgan

But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

~ Jude Morgan

Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats

~ Jude Morgan

A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.

~ Jude Morgan

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

~ Jude Morgan

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

~ Jude Morgan

Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

~ Jude Morgan

I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.

~ Jude Morgan

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

~ Jude Morgan

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

~ Jude Morgan

I will do what I can

~ Jude Morgan

Words are only words

~ Jude Morgan

Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

~ Jude Morgan

I can always forgive where I understand.

~ Jude Morgan

Emily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain slants across your mind with a smell of mossy limestone and yet you are not at home, you might almost be in Gondal or Angria except the towers and the dungeons are of the spirit, the dungeons especially; and sometimes when Emily reads out in her low, almost guttural voice Charlotte wants to run but can’t think why or where she would run to.

~ Jude Morgan

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting

~ Jude Morgan

One wouldn't wish to tempt fate

~ Jude Morgan

It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong

~ Jude Morgan

It is so important to think for yourself.

~ Jude Morgan

Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.

~ Jude Morgan

Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.

~ Jude Morgan

It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.

~ Jude Morgan

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

~ Jude Morgan

Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist

~ Jude Morgan

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

~ Jude Morgan

I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.

~ Jude Morgan