Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Virtue

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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

Sarcastic, Patience, Virtue

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Ambrose Bierce

Peculiar, Betrayed, Virtue

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.67, 谷月社

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

Ambrose Bierce

Life, Virtue, Modern

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Ambrose Bierce

Hypocrite, Doe, Virtue

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

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

Ambrose Bierce

Virtue, Certain, Certainty

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

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

Ambrose Bierce

Humility, Virtue, Certain

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.227, 谷月社

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Ambrose Bierce

Death, Dying, Virtue

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.69, University of Georgia Press

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 . .

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Country, Virtue, Introducing

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

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

Ambrose Bierce

Coward, Human Nature, Virtue

Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.238, Univ. of Tennessee Press