"My heart is, and always will be, yours."
"She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
3 likes
Source: 'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Jane Austen
"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
"The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder."
"Our scars make us know that our past was for real"