Lindsey Davis: Quotes about personality

Lindsey Davis is English novelist. Explore interesting quotes on personality.
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“Find a man who takes prostitutes off the streets as a personal vocation, and he'll probably have a set of neat jars with his childhood collection of dissected rats.”

Lindsey Davis book Nemesis

Nemesis
Context: Petronius once told me that pathological murderers tend to start their killing sprees while they are children. Find a man who takes prostitutes off the streets as a personal vocation, and he'll probably have a set of neat jars with his childhood collection of dissected rats.

Childhood , Personality

“To know another person's fortune smacks of wanting to control their fate for the wrong reasons.”

Lindsey Davis book The Accusers

The Accusers

Fate , Personality

“I would rather see Rome ruled by a man who once had to ask his accountant tricky questions before his steward could pay the butcher’s bill than by some mad limb like Nero, who was brought up believing himself the son and the grandson of gods, and who thought wearing the purple gave him free rein to indulge his personal vanities, execute real talent, bankrupt the Treasury, burn half of Rome – and bore the living daylights out of paying customers in theatres!”

Lindsey Davis book Shadows in Bronze

Shadows in Bronze

God , Question , Personality , Madness

“He had the kind of personality that makes you think a boy will grow up to be a public torturer.”

Lindsey Davis book The Ides of April

The Ides of April

Boy , Thinking , Personality

“Petronius once told me that pathological murderers tend to start their killing sprees while they are children. Find a man who takes prostitutes off the streets as a personal vocation, and he'll probably have a set of neat jars with his childhood collection of dissected rats.”

Lindsey Davis book Nemesis

Nemesis (2010)

Childhood , Personality , Children