Ambrose Bierce Quotes

  • Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.Upload to Facebook
    Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Politeness. The most acceptable hypocrisy.Upload to Facebook
    Politeness. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Logic:  The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations of human misunderstanding.Upload to Facebook
    Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations of human misunderstanding.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT