Imperious Quotes

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

I've always been bossy.

People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are so stern and resolute about it they are not very open to new and better ideas.

Although anti-Slavery is weak in political circles, it was never stronger with the masses of the people. The great heart of the country is sound. Thousands and millions of true men all over the North wait but the occasion for a practical demonstration of their power, to show how firm is their attachment to the principles of freedom, and how deeply they scorn the shallow fools who have the impertinence to talk about "crushing out" those principles. We expect to see Slavery go on pressing and pushing the advantages it derived from the adjustment of 1850, till a reaction is created that will again convulse the country to its center. Slavery is imperious, encroaching, truculent, belligerent. Its own conduct will thus ultimately generate an explosive force that must blow it to atoms.

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

Their authority over their slaves renders them vain and imperious.

I was a sporadically bossy child.

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.