Top 61 Quotes About Imperious
#1. DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
Jasper Fforde
#2. Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy; he has to verify it for himself.
Carlos Castaneda
#3. The sea is as desolate and barren as it is fertile and life-giving. It is cold and dismal, yet bold and spirited. Sometimes imperious and conquering, other times gentle and meek. But it is always mysterious. Those mysteries hold many secrets. One has but to listen and watch to discover them
Jocelyn Murray
#4. So we children must be thankful to the imperious Dr. Young for making it possible for our parents to meet and our subsequent births.
Katherine Paterson
#5. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.
Nathan Hale
#6. Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .
Timothy Keller
#7. The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
George Sand
#8. Do not get angry, stubborn, and imperious. Get curious.
Dee Hock
#9. Then came a volley of colorful abuse, delivered in such an imperious voice, at at such a volume, that Terentia's distant ancestor, who had commanded the Roman line against Hannibal at Cannae a century and a half before, must surely have sat bolt upright in his tomb.
Robert Harris
#10. But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.
Edmund Spenser
#11. [On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
Madame De Stael
#12. Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
Marquis De Sade
#13. I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.
Alice McDermott
#14. But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion.
Alexandre Dumas
#15. There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#16. We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.
Henry Ward Beecher
#17. It was love without reason, love for something futureless, love that appeared to exist only to be itself, imperious and all demanding, the kind that would cause him to make a fool of himself in an instant.
Flannery O'Connor
#18. He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.
Dan Jones
#19. No, I might be able to poke fun at the Quran for its childishly imperious content, but not for its style.
Rabih Alameddine
#20. He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two geniuses: dry-eyed, rigorous exactitude, and generous leaps of imagination - non-rigid, non-uniform and innovative.
Warren Winiarski
#21. It pains me to be an embarrassment to you, but I don't know how to remedy my flaws. All I know is that whenever I feel strongly compelled to act, a doubt always arises. And whereas the voice of reason is low and persuasive, passion is loud and imperious.
Stephanie Dray
#22. Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw
#23. The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
Seneca The Younger
#24. For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
Aldous Huxley
#25. As a rule children of tough and imperious parents sticking to authoritarian method of upbringing have a victim complex
Sunday Adelaja
#26. Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
Oh, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!
William Shakespeare
#27. Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.
Matthew Henry
#28. Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
Pete Townshend
#29. Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.
Mason Cooley
#30. Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
Anthony Trollope
#31. With his wife's imperious face peering down at him, Lord Maccon took a moment to wonder why he had thought to crave such a woman in his life. Alexia bent over and nibbled at his chest. Ah, yes, initiative and ingenuity.
Gail Carriger
#32. He died angry," Chalmers said, "because I didn't believe him. Even in death he is emphatic and imperious.
Erik Larson
#34. Victim complex are so dangerous because they automatically attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their lives
Sunday Adelaja
#35. 'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
Christine Pelosi
#36. The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
Horace
#38. A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.
Charles Hummel
#39. From "Caleb's Crossing"
This is an excellent thought about family though it doesn't apply to me. I am lucky in my brothers.
"Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul to whom fate had shackled me.
Geraldine Brooks
#40. Imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known - there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, for I will not change
Marquis De Sade
#41. Her face had an imperious, timeless quality that I'd learned to recognize. It meant I'm a goddess; deal with it.
Rick Riordan
#42. In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants and so proves a rough master that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes
Thucydides
#43. The house, she'd explained to them many times, had spoken to her; she'd listened, and it turned out they'd understood one another very well indeed. Greenacres was an imperious old lady, a little worn, to be sure, cranky in her own way-but who wouldn't be?
Kate Morton
#44. For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.
John Calvin
#45. I just think Barack [Obama], he doesn't dig being asked at all. He's got a bit of an imperious nature about him. I guess nobody has told him that nobody reads newspapers anymore. That is a dying art form.
Bill O'Reilly
#46. Inoue was standing at the point of a spear composed of irate Japanese geeks, and he was pleased to see that the principal reaction on her face was a fizzing, imperious outrage.
Nick Harkaway
#47. In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love
And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.
Robert Underwood Johnson
#48. A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.
Philip Sidney
#49. Has it not ... invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice?
Alexander Hamilton
#50. People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life
Sunday Adelaja
#51. I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.
W.S. Gilbert
#52. Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
Barbara Kingsolver
#53. The matter had to be settled immediately, without delaying another day, for at times he too felt an imperious need for instant solutions, which is all the weak are capable of, given their inability to sustain an effort of will.
Guy De Maupassant
#54. Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.
Robert Payne
#55. Because of God, even the imperious ballbreakers, moralizing windbags, and meddling assholes may know love.
Joshua Ferris
#56. O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate,
you can not thwart
the promptings of my soul.
Hilda Doolittle
#57. The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs ... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.
Mark Twain
#58. Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves,
Walt Whitman
#59. The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.
Blaise Pascal
#60. Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.
Annie Besant
#61. There will be found to exist at all times an imperious necessity for restraining all the functionaries of the Government within the range of their respective powers thereby preserving a just balance between the powers granted to this Government and those reserved to the States and to the people.
John Tyler
