Quotes from 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.

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

You cannot believe everything you hear

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

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

To assume is to presume.

When you are in love- everything is romantic

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Love is always unexpected

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.

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.

It is not always easy, for a woman alone.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

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?

I am all or nothing