I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the éclat of a proverb.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 18. While dancing with him, Elizabeth insults Darcy by saying that both of them are alike: they are unsocial and quiet unless what they have to say will amaze the room. Her prejudice against him is in full effect here.