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Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Country

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POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for

POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific-and without science we are as the snakes and toads.

Country, Drinking, Science

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2484, Delphi Classics

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Sarcastic, Country, Art

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.47, 谷月社

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

Country, Responsibility, Power

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Country, Stupid, Power

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Funny, Country, Humorous

Ambrose Bierce (1968). “The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader: selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist”

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Country, People, Office

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.34, 谷月社

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

Country, Character, People

Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome Hopkins (1968). “The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader: selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist”

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

Country, Ambassadors, Exile

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.60, 谷月社

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

Country, Usa, Littles

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.7, University of Georgia Press

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Country, War, Patriotism

Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz (2003). “A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce”, p.208, Ohio State University Press

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Country, War, Men

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “A Son of the Gods and Horseman in the Sky”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

Country, Blood, Hands

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

If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.

Country, Hypocrite, United States

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.238, tredition

Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

Hope, Country, Littles

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1211, Delphi Classics

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

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

Country, Thinking, Persons

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.117, University of Georgia Press

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

Country, War, Believe

RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .

Country, Virtue, Introducing

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.108, Courier Corporation

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

Country, Reading, Sphinx

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.

Country, Men, Two

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.145, 谷月社

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