Top 75 Jude Morgan Quotes
#1. The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us
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#2. When you are in love- everything is romantic
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#4. 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.
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#5. Life is shockingly short to trouble about certain things.
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#6. I should say no more. Because when we dislike someone we are always very ready to believe any ill of them
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#7. Miss Rose in this demonstrating the peculiar talent of those who proclaim their absence of self-esteem for getting a lot of attention by pretending they never get any
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#8. 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.
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#9. Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion
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#10. I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting
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#11. We shall live, love and be happy as mortals can be
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#12. 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.
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#13. I must try to be charitable, Caroline thought: probably she doesn't mean to sound as if she is continually translating from Latin.
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#14. You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.
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#15. No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.
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#16. I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.
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#17. There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the window-panes there is a steely vignette of November murk and withered twigs, so much the better.
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#18. 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.
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#19. People argue themselves out of their pleasures
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#20. 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.
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#21. It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong
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#22. Still, some might say it was her duty to endure it. But she could not sacrifice self-respect on the altar of convention. That's rather a good phrase, isn't it? I must have read it somewhere.
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#23. 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.
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#24. I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.
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#26. A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.
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#27. We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything.
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#28. I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express
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#30. She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.
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#31. Matthew gave her such a hurt, wistful, nobly forbearing, and absolutely infuriating look that if Caroline had been a rich aunt she would have cut him out of her will on the spot.
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#32. Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist
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#33. A balance, I think, is needed , " Dr. Templeton said judiciously,"between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.
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#34. The respectable world and I are on easy terms. I ignore it when I choose, and it does likewise with me.
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#35. You cannot believe everything you hear
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#36. I can always forgive where I understand.
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#37. 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.
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#38. And now over there is a gentleman who should not wear tight pantaloons. You will see when he turns around. There. That is why.
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#39. Really, I protest
what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?
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#41. Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.
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#43. 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.
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#44. The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.
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#45. 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.
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#46. It is so important to think for yourself.
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#47. 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
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#48. Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.
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#50. We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.
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#51. I have been run over by the speeding chariot of fate, caught up in its spiked wheels." - "I hate it when that happens," said Stephen.
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#52. I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.
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#53. Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.
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#54. It is not always easy, for a woman alone.
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#55. If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.
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#56. None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time
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#57. Without money and without connections- I have failed you!
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#58. 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?
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#59. It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.
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#60. Imagination shrinks from the consequences.
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#63. It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard
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#64. And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.
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#65. To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.
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#66. He peered gloomily into a folio of maps. 'I always think Brazil is too big.
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#67. There are some people who like nothing better than a good, regular quarrel.
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#68. Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats
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#69. Aye, so: there is love, and there is indulgence, and they may touch sometimes but they're not the same.
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#70. One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
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#71. Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.
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#72. 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.
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#73. 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?
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#74. No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.
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#75. I believe, for instance, that love is an infection best contracted and got over when one is young, like the smallpox; and then one may rest secure from it and get on with life
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