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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
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
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. -- George Bernard Shaw
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. -- George Sand
'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives. -- Christine Pelosi
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
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
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
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
Habit is the most imperious of all masters. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious. -- Mason Cooley
An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate. -- Josephine Preston Peabody
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . -- Timothy Keller
O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul. -- Hilda Doolittle
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world -- George Sand
Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace. -- Matthew Henry
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious. -- Nathan Hale
A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions. -- Philip Sidney
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man. -- Madame de Stael
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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

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