Jude Morgan quotes:

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

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.

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.

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

You have made him live.

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

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.

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

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

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

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

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

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."

Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

I have striven never to betray myself

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 will do what I can

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.

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

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.

I can always forgive where I understand.

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

When you are in love- everything is romantic

I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express

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

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

It is not always easy, for a woman alone.

Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

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

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