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Quotes About Overbearing

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.
~ Margaret Atwood
A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.
~ Madeleine de Scudery
The air was so thick with testosterone that the wallpaper was getting soggy.
~ Nelson DeMille
Any more motherly attention and I could end up strapped to a table in Ward B singing 'I Gotta Be Me.
~ Kristin Hannah
I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.
~ Clive Owen
That's when that idiot viscount handed the rebuilding of Fairborough Hall off to that overbearing female.
~ Victoria Alexander
Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.
~ Walter Kirn
My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.
~ William Shakespeare
Overconfidence is a curse
~ Peter Lerangis
Ken sat glued to his seat in mingled fear and wrath. Was he to be the butt of those overbearing sophomores?
~ Zane Grey
I have a lot of affection to give, and sometimes I'm a little overbearing.
~ Dove Cameron
If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband to finish risking his stupid neck, I'd use the time to see what I could spot.
~ Diana Gabaldon
He knew he was being overbearing as hell, but he couldn't help it. He was a bonded male. With his pregnant female. There were few things on the planet more aggressive or dangerous. And those bastards were called hurricanes and tornadoes.
~ J.R. Ward
Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
~ Marco Rubio
There is a clear difference between leadership that is gentle and loving in its strength, and leadership that is forceful and overbearing. Shepherds lead others to walk in the ways of the Lord.
~ Unknown
As a rule, however, we do not respect our children. We try to force them to follow us without regard to their special needs. We are overbearing with them, and above all, rude; and then we expect them to be submissive and well-behaved, knowing all the time how strong is their instinct of imitation and how touching their faith in and admiration of us.
~ Maria Montessori
Perpetually needy people suck the life out of you, because no matter what you do for them, it's never enough.
~ Mark Goulston
Christine Booth was sick of her mother's voice, it was like a constant
~ Martina Cole
Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
~ Paul Harris