98 Quotes by Jude Morgan

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.

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

Emily’s 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’t think why or where she would run to.

Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

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.

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

It is so important to think for yourself.

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.