Quotes from Jude Morgan

I have just had a thought about the cut of the Minerva's spanker-boom.' 'How little I understand of that sentence,' she said, admiring his drawing. 'And is there truly something on a ship called a f'c'sle? It seems to have an unwarranted excess of apostrophes. My suspicion is that when we landlubbers are not by, seamen do not use these words at all and talk quite normally.

But her chief emotion was pity: for father's embarrassment at having to tell her this, for the staggerings of a man obliged, even for a little time, to throw away the crutches of untruth.

Yes, put it there, fill the table so there's no space left, no room for the guilt.

The tendency to late marriages may reflect nothing more than the growth of sense," Lewis Durant said, "At 21, a man seldom knows what he is doing, or where his best interests lie." "I am glad you say a man, Mr. Durant, and exempt woman from this youthful imbecility," Lidia said. "I do: a woman's imbecility is not dependent on youth: it flourishes at all ages.

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.

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.

How odd that we always exclaim over children growing, as if in the ordinary run of things they shrink

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

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

Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist

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.

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

as one looks instinctively at the clock: that must be right. That will tell me where I am

the way the people closest to us are able so effortlessly to thrust us to the farthest distance

See? It's easy. Try. Try the exquisite pleasure of surprising yourself.

You can beat with love

I think there is a compliment there somewhere, but it is very well disguised

The influences of our childhood and youth cannot be underestimated, I believe: those are the experiences that shape us, far beyond their immediate power

when everyone is used to being open and honest, then no one will get hurt by such things

after a time, one finds that the heart is simply not meant to pound all the time. The world couldn't go on. Regular rhythms are best. Look at nature.

The clock of my heart and the clock of my body have never shown the same time. I envy people who are synchronized, who are always their proper age. They have the secret of easy living.

Responsibilty, she discovered, was a sort of drug.

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

She had lived with the story as you live with a favourite book, which changes with you as you change and grow