Imperial Authority

Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or authority:

    Fair tresses man’s imperial race ensnare,
    And beauty draws us with a single hair.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)