Jude Morgan Quotes & Sayings

I thought you didn't believe in marriage."
"A man who never contradicts himself must become horribly bored with his own conversation. Oh, on the whole I don't believe in it, except when there is genuine love, which is such a compound of affection, warmth, ease, esteem, and various other spices and condiments rarer than powdered hen's teeth that one hardly expects to come across it once in a lifetime. — Jude Morgan

Country picnics always sound nicer than they are. I think we should just have the idea of them, and be pleased with it, and then not go. The only true pleasures are indoors, artificial, and untainted with healthiness. — 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

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

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

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. — 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

The respectable world and I are on easy terms. I ignore it when I choose, and it does likewise with me. — Jude Morgan

Soon dinner will run into bed-time, and we shall all eat reclining like the ancient Romans
about whose digestion, you know, I have often wondered. Whether a dose of rhubabrb might have made a difference to Nero or Caligula is a question you might ponder, my dear, next time you go through your Tacitus. — Jude Morgan

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

I should say no more. Because when we dislike someone we are always very ready to believe any ill of them — Jude Morgan

But then she often felt like this lately. The world seemed full of transparent frauds that only she could see through. She was forever shouting from the hustings of honesty, though if any honesty were directed at her she ran from it horrified. And she knew it, laughed at herself for it, wretchedly. She was all to pieces. — Jude Morgan

I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully. — Jude Morgan

Life is shockingly short to trouble about certain things. — Jude Morgan

Imagination shrinks from the consequences. — Jude Morgan

I have been run over by the speeding chariot of fate, caught up in its spiked wheels." - "I hate it when that happens," said Stephen. — Jude Morgan

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

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

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

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

To assume is to presume. — Jude Morgan

And now over there is a gentleman who should not wear tight pantaloons. You will see when he turns around. There. That is why. — Jude Morgan

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

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

I have striven never to betray myself — Jude Morgan

Without money and without connections- I have failed you! — 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

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

Still, some might say it was her duty to endure it. But she could not sacrifice self-respect on the altar of convention. That's rather a good phrase, isn't it? I must have read it somewhere. — Jude Morgan

When you are in love- everything is romantic — Jude Morgan

I believe, for instance, that love is an infection best contracted and got over when one is young, like the smallpox; and then one may rest secure from it and get on with life — Jude Morgan

We shall live, love and be happy as mortals can be — Jude Morgan

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion — Jude Morgan

We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything. — Jude Morgan

You cannot believe everything you hear — Jude Morgan

There are some people who like nothing better than a good, regular quarrel. — 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

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

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

I am all or nothing — Jude Morgan

Love is always unexpected — Jude Morgan

Miss Rose in this demonstrating the peculiar talent of those who proclaim their absence of self-esteem for getting a lot of attention by pretending they never get any — Jude Morgan

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

It is so important to think for yourself. — 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

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 away.
Bearing up, then, must be this: the feeling of perfect frozen stillness, so that to raise your hand was a wrenching and unnatural event. It was not being able to sleep or eat, and the small placid tone in which she heard herself decline the food. It was the presentiment that there must be a crack or a hole somewhere at hand down which she was to throw and extinguish herself, since there must surely be something provided to make this bearable. — Jude Morgan

People argue themselves out of their pleasures — Jude Morgan

She simply cannot let go of love- and who can blame that? Is it not the hardest thing in the world to relinquish, once you have it? — Jude Morgan

Aye, so: there is love, and there is indulgence, and they may touch sometimes but they're not the same. — Jude Morgan

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment. — Jude Morgan

Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist — Jude Morgan

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

Anne's is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity. — 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 will do what I can — 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

I found out when I went away from Wythorpe the first time in November
remember? How nice it is to rhyme, I must do it all the time. — Jude Morgan

One wouldn't wish to tempt fate — Jude Morgan

You have made him live. — Jude Morgan

What did she love Shelley for? His reckless spontaneity
like this. His helpless generous nature
like this. His treatment of her as a reasonable human being and not a trembling little rose
and so on. If she loved him for these things, could she hate him for them? Could she? — Jude Morgan

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

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

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

Matthew gave her such a hurt, wistful, nobly forbearing, and absolutely infuriating look that if Caroline had been a rich aunt she would have cut him out of her will on the spot. — Jude Morgan

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

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

I do not declare that I have no intention of marrying on any general principle. If I were to see the right man, no doubt I should eat my words with a ready appetite. The simple fact is, I have never seen him yet, and at the age of thirty, reason inclines me rather to conclude that he does not exist, than to persist in the belief that he is still somewhere to be found — Jude Morgan

And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it. — Jude Morgan

It is not always easy, for a woman alone. — Jude Morgan

Words are only words — Jude Morgan

There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the window-panes there is a steely vignette of November murk and withered twigs, so much the better. — Jude Morgan

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else. — Jude Morgan

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

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

I can always forgive where I understand. — Jude Morgan

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly. — Jude Morgan

He peered gloomily into a folio of maps. 'I always think Brazil is too big. — Jude Morgan

I must try to be charitable, Caroline thought: probably she doesn't mean to sound as if she is continually translating from Latin. — Jude Morgan