Authoritative Tone Quotes

I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr version of history. I hate the authorial voice telling you what to think.

Forget the veterans. They havent told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either.

There happened in my time one noble speaker [Sir Francis Bacon] who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.

I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?

First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you!

Sometimes people need to be told to sit down and shut up.

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

I'm the only president you've got.

Go to bed, Cammie,” my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother. “No,” I said, sounding exactly like my aunt.

You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of the water except the authoritative style of a master to a school-boy.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as the playwright, I know how it goes, and there's the thought, 'Why can't they catch up?'

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

This estrogen force field needs to dissipate... Move along. All of you. Now!

Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we'.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.

The President of the United States will not stand and be questioned like a chicken thief by men whose names he does not even know.

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.