Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— George Sand

An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.

— Josephine Preston Peabody

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

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism,…

— Marquis de Sade

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are the masters of our reality.

— Kat Von D

There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.

— Sri Aurobindo

Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to…

— James Weldon Johnson

Death is a master from Germany.

— Paul Celan

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;…

— Thomas Carlyle

A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill…

— George Ellwanger

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

— William Shakespeare

We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.

— Virgil

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

— Anonymous