Domineering Attitude Quotes

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.

It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies.

Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please don’t punish me for saying it. I think you know you’re cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I don’t want to run errands for someone cruel.

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note. ... Here he laid a hand on my shoulder, and I can't remember when I have experienced anything more unpleasant. Apart from what Jeeves would have called the symbolism of the action, he had a grip like the bite of a horse. "Did you say 'Oh yes?'" he asked. "Oh no," I assured him.

I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes. ~Soi Fon

Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true of the British Empireearlier, and it will certainly be true of the Chinese Empire in the future.

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.

She’s my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose.” “I love it when you talk dirty,” she purred. “Give my regards to Lindsay.

When you're convinced that you're right and you believe that you have the license to do anything because you're right, you can be bossy and you can be dangerous. You can be oppressive. You can be a tyrant.

I guess if I get a little weird about something that isn't the way I want it, and I complain, then it's called controlling.

In America nature is autocratic, saying, "I am not arguing, I am telling you.

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.