Quotes from Jude Morgan

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

Life is shockingly short to trouble about certain things.

It is so important to think for yourself.

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

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

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

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.

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

Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

No amount of parental protectiveness could overcome the fact that she was very ready to be dazzled.

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.

One wouldn't wish to tempt fate

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

But Reason's voice could not always be heard above the clamour of self-doubt

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