Ocupation: Novelist
Life: December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817
Birthday: December 16
Death: July 18
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 eclat of a proverb.
source: Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.81
topic: Rooms, Speak, Disposition, Unwilling, Taciturn