Quotes by Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

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Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There arefour kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiab — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Dictionar — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby derang — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete i — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private ad — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misu — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary