All Ambrose Bierce Quotes
- Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. Body
- Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. Ambitious
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. Best
- The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. Bluff
- Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. Act
- To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. Mistaken
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of… Business
- Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. Amnesty
- Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. Book
- Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. Conclusion
- Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. Freedom
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. Fellows
- Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have,… Adjustment
- Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. Broad
- Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world. Atheism
- Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. Adj Affected
- We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. Attitude
- Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. Believed
- Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. American
- Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. Call
- Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. Able
- Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. Altruism
- Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is… Blockhead
- Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. Authority
- Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. Along