Jude Morgan

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

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats

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.

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

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

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

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.

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

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.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

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

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.

Anne__ 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.

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

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