Jude Morgan

“When you are in love- everything is romantic”

“People argue themselves out of their pleasures”

“One wouldn't wish to tempt fate”

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

“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”

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

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

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

“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.”

“The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us”

“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.”

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

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

“Words are only words”

“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.”

“It is so important to think for yourself.”

“You cannot believe everything you hear”

“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.”

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

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