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

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  • Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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  • Patience: A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
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  • Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
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  • Peace: a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
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  • Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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  • Philanthropist: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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  • Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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  • Physician - One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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  • Politeness - The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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  • Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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  • Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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  • Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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  • Prejudice: A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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  • Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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  • Quotation: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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  • Radicalism: the conservatism of tomorrow injected into the affairs of today.
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  • Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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  • Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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