Best 42 quotes of Jude Morgan on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

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

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

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

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist

I can always forgive where I understand.

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.

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

I have striven never to betray myself

It is not always easy, for a woman alone.

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

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

One wouldn't wish to tempt fate

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.

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

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.

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.

To assume is to presume.

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

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

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

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

You cannot believe everything you hear

You have made him live.