Quotes by : Jude Morgan

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything:....

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

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....

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

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

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

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

Emily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain....