Domineering Personality Quotes

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

I'm a control freak. I'm defensive. And I'm an egomaniac. That's true about me.

The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation.

My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.

For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.