Jude Morgan Quotes

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

— Jude Morgan

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

— Jude Morgan

“You cannot believe everything you hear”

— Jude Morgan

“No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.”

— Jude Morgan

To assume is to presume.

— Jude Morgan

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

— Jude Morgan

“When you are in love- everything is romantic”

— Jude Morgan

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

— 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

“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

“Love is always unexpected”

— 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

“You have made him live.”

— 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

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

— Jude Morgan

I am all or nothing

— Jude Morgan

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

— Jude Morgan

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

— Jude Morgan

“I will do what I can”

— Jude Morgan

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

— Jude Morgan

“I have striven never to betray myself”

— Jude Morgan

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

— 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

“Words are only words”

— Jude Morgan

“We shall live, love and be happy as mortals can be”

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

— 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

“Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats”

— 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

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

— Jude Morgan

“Life is shockingly short to trouble about certain things.”

— 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

“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

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

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

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

It is so important to think for yourself.

— Jude Morgan

“One wouldn't wish to tempt fate”

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

— Jude Morgan

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

— 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

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

— 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 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

“Without money and without connections- I have failed you!”

— Jude Morgan

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

— Jude Morgan

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

“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