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Love Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

67 Love quotes by Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce calls love a decision, a choice that tips the balance of influences. He jokes that love can be fickle, a satiety of an enterprising affection, and even a liar who tells an unpleasant truth. He also likens love to a rattlesnake, a prostrate brother that can bite when you least expect it.

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repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

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NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.

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CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

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actually, adv. Perhaps; possibly.

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INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

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art, n. This word has no definition.

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A penny saved is a penny to squander.

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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

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RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

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TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

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LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

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“Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.”

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resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.

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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;

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MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

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LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.

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The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste…

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NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

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“I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first thought of the mind, the first…

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REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

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A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

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I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you…

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PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a…

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LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the…

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Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the…

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CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the…

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REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

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TRUCE, n. Friendship.

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adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly.

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Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

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alone, adj. In bad company.

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If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens.

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recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

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Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law.

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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

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REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.

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Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

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BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

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OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus…

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes…

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work…

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time…

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

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who…

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.