Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

American writer

Lived from: 1842 - 1914

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 24 june 1842 Died: 1 january 1914

Quotes 21 till 40 of 232.

 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
  • Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Alone: In bad company.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • Amnesty: The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
  • An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    - +
    -1
 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
All Ambrose Bierce famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 2)

Popular subjects

Popular authors