Quotes About Authority

Ah, but I'm not a gentleman," said the Marquis. "I have it on the best of authority that I am only a nobleman." "Good gracious, Vidal, who in the world dared to say such a thing?" cried his cousin, instantly diverted. "Mary," replied his lordship, pouring himself out a glass of wine.

It is possible," said Miss Marling stiffly, "that Frederick and not Mary will have the ordering of the journey." Vidal chuckled. "Not if I know my Mary," he replied

If,said the Dowager, after a pregnant silence, I had ever dared to speak so to my grandmother, I should have been soundly whipped and confined to my bedchamber on bread-and-water for a sennight! The gravity vanished from Cressy's face. no, would you, Ma'am? How very brave your parents must have been!

Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance. Take your orders from Miss Taverner, Henry, said the Earl, getting up beside his ward. Me Lord, you are never going to let a female drive us? said Henry almost tearfully. What about my pride? Swallow it, Henry, replied the Earl amicably.

I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.

It is high time you realised that you are of age, and may do as you please. Now, be off, and don't neglect to change your stockings!

My lord consigned the doctor and his words of wisdom to a place of great heat

His lordship detested independently-minded subordinates. It was not the business of his officers to think for themselves.

And as for agreeing with him, gentlemen are so much wiser than we are, and so much better able to judge of– of worldly matters– don't you think?' 'Emphatically, No!

you had as well go rabbit-hunting with a dead ferret as try to get past his butler!

Management theorists have sanctified capitalism in much the same way that clergymen of yore sanctified feudalism. Business schools are cathedrals of capitalism. Consultants are its traveling friars. Just as the clergy in the days of feudalism spoke in Latin to give their words an air of authority, the myrmidons of capitalism speak in a similarly indecipherable mumbo-jumbo.

He had all the essential attributes for high office; the morals of a politician, the Machiavellian mind of a con man, and a wife who was related to half the top brass in the force. He couldn't fail.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

The pirates left the boat in the Thames, next to the Palace of Westminster. They deliberately parked across two disabled spaces, because that kind of behaviour was pretty much the whole point of being a pirate.

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes with a two by four to get its attention.

I had worked hard my entire career to establish myself as a leader. But I wasn't a leader until I was perceived as one.

I worked in the White House on 9/11, where the vice president was given the authority to, if he deemed necessary, shoot down an American passenger jet.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority.

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

When I entered the workforce, I was frustrated. When you're starting your career, somebody else is 'The Man' or 'The Woman.' They go into a room and make the decision, not you. You don't feel empowered. I wanted to break through that.

CEOs are called by their first names by young whippersnappers. That makes everybody uncomfortable. We need order and structure back in the workplace.

Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.