Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 26

All Quotes Accidents Adversity Affection Age Aging Alcohol Army Art Assumption Atheism Attitude Authority Beauty Belief Boundaries Business Certainty Change Character Cheating Childhood Children Choices Church Clarinet Confusion Cooking Country Creation Critics Culture Cynicism Death Democracy Desire Devil Diplomacy Disappointment Doubt Drinking Dying Earth Education Ego Energy Envy Eternity Evidence Evil Excellence Expectations Failure Faith Fame Family Fashion Fear Feelings Finance Food Friendship Funeral Funny Future Genius Giving God Gold Growth Guilt Happiness Hatred Heart Heaven Hell History Home Honor Hope House Ignorance Imagination Independence Injustice Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Joy Judging Judgment Justice Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Latin Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Literature Logic Losing Love Lying Marriage Math Military Money Morality Motherhood Music Nature Nihilism Office Opportunity Optimism Passion Past Patriotism Peace Philosophy Pleasure Politics Power Prejudice Preparation Pride Property Prosperity Purpose Quality Reality Religion Responsibility Revenge Revolution Running Sacrifice School Science Silence Sin Skins Son Soul Spirituality Spring Stupidity Style Success Suffering Taxes Temptation Theology Time Truth Understanding Violence Virtue Wall War Water Wealth Wife Wine Wisdom Work Worship Writing Youth

A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant

A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

Dog, Mean, World

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

Army, Men, Hands

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.14, Courier Corporation

The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.

Games, Wish, Add

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1212, Delphi Classics

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

Principles, Determined, Behavior

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2363, Delphi Classics

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

Travel, Journey, Land

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.203, University of Georgia Press

mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

Ifs, I Can, Mines

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.81, Courier Corporation

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Funny, Happiness, Happy

Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.26, Penguin

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Halos

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Envy, Emulation, Capacity

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.75, e-artnow

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

Moving, Men, White Man

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.241, 谷月社

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

Friendship, Beggar, Assistance

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.29, Courier Corporation

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

Humility, Virtue, Certain

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.227, 谷月社

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Gossip, Secret, Confidant

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

Life, Nature, Mind

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2467, Delphi Classics

When you doubt, abstain.

Doubt

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.

Funny, Country, Lying

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

Men, Apes, Reform

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1216, Delphi Classics

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

White, Numbers, House

Ambrose Bierce (2007). “Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Heyday Books

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

Kings, America, Males

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

Time, Nature, Punishment

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

Water, Imagination, Novelists

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.187, 谷月社

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

Men, Thinking, Pigs

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

Mind, Kind, Produce

Ambrose Bierce (1996). “Poems of Ambrose Bierce”, p.41, U of Nebraska Press

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.

Two, Shapes, Temples

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

Humorous, Doctors, Medicine

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1222, Delphi Classics

You May Also Like: