Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The quotations of
Ambrose Bierce
American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
1842–1914
88 quotes, most often on Comedy, Anti-Religion and Politics.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man…who has no gills.
The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Epigrams, p. 369Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
- The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- The Devil’s Dictionary (1911).
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
The Cynic’s Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil’s Dictionary (1911).The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
“Diversions of an Idler: Some Negligible Epigrams”, in Cosmopolitan, vol. 39, no. 4 (August 1905) p. 444Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)- The Devil’s Dictionary (1911).
Often credited to Ambrose Bierce
Quotes often credited to Ambrose Bierce that were said or written by someone else.
