Jude Morgan

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

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

One wouldn't wish to tempt fate

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting

Emily__ 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__ think why or where she would run to.

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

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

I can always forgive where I understand.

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

Words are only words

I will do what I can

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

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

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.

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

You cannot believe everything you hear

Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!