Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
36 quotes by Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce - american jurnalist and writer.
Was born on 24 jun 1842.
Died on 11 jan 1914, at 71 years old.
Died on 11 jan 1914, at 71 years old.
Origin country: United States
Abstainer a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about temptation, pleasure, man
An egotist is a person of low taste more interested in himself than in me.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about egoism, people
Beauty, the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about beauty, husband, woman, power
Childhood the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about childhood, youth, sin, age, olderness, human imperfections, life
Cynic a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about vision, things
Death is not the end, there remains the litigation over the estate.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about death, real estate, end
Destiny a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about destiny, authority, failure, crime, criminals
Dog a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about animals, trap, world
Duty that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about duty
Education that which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about education
That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about education
Fidelity a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about fidelity, virtue
Enthusiasm a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about enthusiasm, youth, experience
Experience the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about experience, wisdom, old, olderness
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about experience, revelation, error, youth, light, age, olderness
Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about faith, knowledge, things
Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about friendship, common sense, wealth, sense, truth
Genius to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
Quote by Ambrose Bierce about genius, soul, things
