A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.

-Chandler, Raymond
  Of Los  Angeles. The Little Sister, ch.26.

   PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.'

-Coupland, Douglas
Generation X,'M T V Not Bullets'.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Sacred Wood,'Tradition and Individual Talent'.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
  The Great Gatsby, ch.1.

Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.

-Roth, Henry
  'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.

He looked like the kind of guy that wouldn't talk to you much unless he wanted something off you. He had a lousy personality.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.11.