Jude Morgan Quotes

Jude Morgan Quotes

Words are only words

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

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

You cannot believe everything you hear

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.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

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

When you are in love- everything is romantic

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.

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

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

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.

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

You have made him live.

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

Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.

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

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

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?

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.

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

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

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

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

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

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