Attributes Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attributes Beloved Compassion Love Mercy Offenders
Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
“Mercy means compassion, empathy, a heart for someone’s troubles. It’s not something you do – it is something in you, accessed, revealed, or cultivated… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. -… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
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… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,… — Fionnula Flanagan Copy Share Image
“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
