Jude Morgan 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.

I can always forgive where I understand.

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

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

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

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

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

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

You cannot believe everything you hear

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

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.

I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express

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.

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

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

It is not always easy, for a woman alone.

Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.

Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

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

Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist

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

I will do what I can

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

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.

It is so important to think for yourself.

Words are only words

One wouldn't wish to tempt fate

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

A balance, I think, is needed, " Dr. Templeton said judiciously, "between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.

So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves far