Authors:

Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Literature

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.39, See Sharp Press

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.48, 谷月社

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.22, 谷月社

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press