Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Biercewas an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto "Nothing matters", and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work, all earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 June 1842
CityMeighs County, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Ambrose Bierce quotes about
Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.
Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.
There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.