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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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About Ambrose Bierce
 Life: 1842 - 1914 Country:  America Profession: Writer; Journalist; Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his Devil's Dictionary.
Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce". Such was his reputation that it was said his judgment on any piece of prose or poetry could make or break a writer's career. Among the younger writers whom he encouraged were the poet George Sterling and the fiction writer W. C. Morrow.
more... QuotationsLearning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Academe, n. An ancient school were morality and philosophy were taught.
Academy, n. (from academe). A modern school where football is taught. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Advice: the smallest current coin.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Age - that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit. ~ Ambrose Bierce
The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ~ Ambrose Bierce
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbors. ~ Ambrose Bierce
One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. ~ Ambrose Bierce
A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ~ Ambrose Bierce
International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one. ~ Ambrose Bierce
... the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~ Ambrose Bierce
When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of others. ~ Ambrose Bierce
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Speak when you are angry and you will make
the best speech you will ever regret. ~ Ambrose Bierce
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