Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Feelings

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Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

Ambrose Bierce

Men, Feelings, Enemy

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2374, Delphi Classics

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

Ambrose Bierce

Fashion, Learning, Feelings

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Ambrose Bierce

Food, Cooking, Feelings

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

Ambrose Bierce

Writing, Bird, Feelings

Ambrose Bierce, Brian St. Pierre (1987). “The Devil's advocate: an Ambrose Bierce reader”, Chronicle Books (CA)