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Jude Morgan Quotes | Quotes said by Jude Morgan

  • Jude Morgan Quote #1

    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 Quote #2

    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 Quote #3

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

  • Jude Morgan Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

    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.

  • Jude Morgan Quote #6

    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.

  • Jude Morgan Quote #7

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

  • Jude Morgan Quote #8

    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 Quote #9

    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 Quote #10

    Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist

  • Jude Morgan Quote #11

    Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

  • Jude Morgan Quote #12

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

  • Jude Morgan Quote #13

    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.

  • Jude Morgan Quote #14

    I can always forgive where I understand.

  • Jude Morgan Quote #15

    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 Quote #16

    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 Quote #17

    I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.

  • Jude Morgan Quote #18

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

  • Jude Morgan Quote #19

    I have striven never to betray myself

  • Jude Morgan Quote #20

    I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting

  • Jude Morgan Quote #21

    I will do what I can

  • Jude Morgan Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

    Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

  • Jude Morgan Quote #24

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

  • Jude Morgan Quote #25

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

  • Jude Morgan Quote #26

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

  • Jude Morgan Quote #27

    It is so important to think for yourself.

  • Jude Morgan Quote #28

    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 Quote #29

    No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

  • Jude Morgan Quote #30

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

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