#i know Claudio turns out to be a dingus

[bethanydelleman]

Shakespeare 🤝 Jane Austen

Believing genuine love and happiness produce silence, not eloquence.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

- Claudio, Much Ado About Nothing

“I cannot make speeches, Emma:” he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing.—“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

- Mr. Knightley, Emma

Had she ever given way to bursts of delight, it must have been then, for she was delighted, but her happiness was of a quiet, deep, heart-swelling sort; and though never a great talker, she was always more inclined to silence when feeling most strongly... but still there were emotions of tenderness that could not be clothed in words.

-Fanny Price, Mansfield Park