Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Kindness

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Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness, Volume, Ten

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

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness, Smell, Noses

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.180, University of Georgia Press

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness, Men, Tailors

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.14, 谷月社

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness, Animal, Hydra

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.94, 谷月社

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness, Writing, Blank

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness, Waste, Hemp

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.72, Courier Corporation

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness, Greek, Peculiar

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.208, University of Georgia Press

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

Ambrose Bierce

Death, Kindness, Amusement

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness, Recreation, Fatigue

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

Ambrose Bierce

Beauty, Kindness, Preparation

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2361, Delphi Classics

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Ambrose Bierce

Leadership, Kindness, Angel

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation