A Little Folly Quotes

“Miss Rose in this demonstrating the peculiar talent of those who proclaim their absence of self-esteem for getting a lot of attention by pretending they never get any”
― Jude Morgan, A Little Folly

“Still, some might say it was her duty to endure it. But she could not sacrifice self-respect on the altar of convention. That's rather a good phrase, isn't it? I must have read it somewhere.”
― Jude Morgan, A Little Folly

“I have just had a thought about the cut of the Minerva's spanker-boom.'
'How little I understand of that sentence,' she said, admiring his drawing. 'And is there truly something on a ship called a f'c'sle? It seems to have an unwarranted excess of apostrophes. My suspicion is that when we landlubbers are not by, seamen do not use these words at all and talk quite normally.”
― Jude Morgan, A Little Folly

“The influences of our childhood and youth cannot be underestimated, I believe: those are the experiences that shape us, far beyond their immediate power”
― Jude Morgan, A Little Folly

“I think there is a compliment there somewhere, but it is very well disguised”
― Jude Morgan, A Little Folly

“Under the greenwood tree, who something something me", tum-te-tum the weather,' Tom remarked. 'Shocking memory for poetry.”
― Jude Morgan, A Little Folly