Jude Morgan, Indiscretion Quotes

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

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

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

When you are in love- everything is romantic

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

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

I can always forgive where I understand.

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.

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

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

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

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

You cannot believe everything you hear

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist

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

It is so important to think for yourself.

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

One wouldn't wish to tempt fate

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

Words are only words

I will do what I can

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

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

Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

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

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