Quality Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

12 Quality quotes by Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce’s biting humor lends a unique edge to his thoughts on quality. In twelve succinct lines he critiques pretension and highlights the value of genuine excellence with characteristic sarcasm.

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Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

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Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

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Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

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

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WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the…

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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity…

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ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is…

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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

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TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest…

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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.…

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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…

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

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

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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…

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

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

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