Authority

Authority is power given by the state (in the form of Members of Parliament, Judges, Police Officers, etc.) or by academic knowledge of an area (someone can be an authority on a subject).

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• There is no fettering of authority.
  • William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1600s), Act II, scene 3, line 248.

• Shall remain!
  Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you
  His absolute "shall"?
  • William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act III, scene 1, line 88.

• Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar,
  And the creature run from the cur:
  There, thou might'st behold the great image of authority;
  A dog's obeyed in office.
  • William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act IV, scene 6, line 159.

• Those he commands, move only in command,
  Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
  Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
  Upon a dwarfish thief.
  • William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act V, scene 2, line 19.

• Thus can the demi-god Authority
  Make us pay down for our offense by weight.
  • William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act I, scene 2, line 124.

• But man, proud man,
  Drest in a little brief authority,
  Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,
  His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
  Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
  As make the angels weep.
  • William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act II, scene 2, line 117.

• And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.
  • William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 831.

• Authority forgets a dying king
  Laid widow'd of the power in his eye
  That bow'd the will.
  • Alfred Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur (1842), line 121.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 47.

• I appeal unto Cæsar.
  • Acts, XXV. 11.

• All authority must be out of a man's self, turned * * * either upon an art, or upon a man.
  • Francis Bacon, Natural History, Century X, Touching emission of immateriate virtues, etc.

• Authority intoxicates,
  And makes mere sots of magistrates;
  The fumes of it invade the brain,
  And make men giddy, proud, and vain.
  • Samuel Butler, Miscellaneous Thoughts, line 283.