Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
36 quotes
"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."
"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."
"When you are in love- everything is romantic"
"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"
"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 have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner."
"She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it."
"To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly."
"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."
"You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story."
"None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time"
"No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night."
"A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering."
"Without money and without connections- I have failed you!"
"Imagination shrinks from the consequences."
"I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal."
"It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt."
"It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard"
"Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion"
"I will do what I can"
"Words are only words"
"I can always forgive where I understand."