# Hadrian the Seventh

- Author: [Frederick Rolfe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederick-rolfe.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederick-rolfe/hadrian-the-seventh

## Quotes

> Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.

p. 343 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederick-rolfe/hadrian-the-seventh/most-people-have.md)

> He took the imperial hand and shook it in the glad-to-see-you-but-keep-off English fashion.

p. 223 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederick-rolfe/hadrian-the-seventh/he-took-the.md)

> Pray for the repose of His soul. He was so tired.

p. 360 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederick-rolfe/hadrian-the-seventh/pray-for-the.md)

> That cold white candent voice which was more caustic than silver nitrate and more thrilling than a scream.

p. 335 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederick-rolfe/hadrian-the-seventh/that-cold-white.md)

> An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.

p. 296 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederick-rolfe/hadrian-the-seventh/an-appeal-to-a-goodness.md)

> Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties – French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.

p. 58 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederick-rolfe/hadrian-the-seventh/brisk-and-prompt.md)