A biography for Jude Morganhasn’t been written yet.
“You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.”
“I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.”
“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”
“No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.”
“If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.”
“Imagination shrinks from the consequences.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting”
“The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.”
“It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard”
“I will do what I can”
“To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.”
“It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.”
“I can always forgive where I understand.”
“Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion”
“It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong”
“Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats”
“Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.”