Imperious Quotes

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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.