All Ambrose Bierce Quotes
- OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. Advocacy
- LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth. Inspirational
- RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem. Disesteem
- INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. Among
- RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. Alike
- INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the… All
- INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman. Funny
- ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him. Accuse
- Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts. Accounts
- POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience,… Acts
- PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe],… According
- OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. Appeal
- EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort. Affair
- PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it. Conscience
- J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because… Assumes
- Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Appearance
- RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass. Dutch
- THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. All
- TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of… American
- PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central… Africa
- OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the… Civilization
- IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to… Considered
- CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws. Body
- MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. Addicted
- INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or… Act