Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Lying

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We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

Cheating, Art, Lying

Ambrose Bierce (1909). “The Shadow on the Dial: And Other Essays”

gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

Ambrose Bierce

Gratitude, Lying, Benefits

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.100, University of Georgia Press

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

Ambrose Bierce

Lying, Sadness, People

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

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Ambrose Bierce

Wisdom, Clever, Lying

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

Ambrose Bierce

Art, Philosophy, Lying

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

Lying, History, Soldier

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 161

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Ambrose Bierce

Time, Lying, Childhood

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

Ambrose Bierce

Lying, Opinion, Assumption

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

Ambrose Bierce

Running, Lying, Philosophy

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.98, 谷月社

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.

Ambrose Bierce

Funny, Country, Lying

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