Quotes Ambrose Bierce

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what ...

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political k...

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and ter...

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a de...

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an o...

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen....

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think....

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her....

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large ...

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and g...

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the...

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the pow...

COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests a...

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confide...

Conservative - a statesman who is enamored of existing evils...

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evi...

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to...

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already dec...

Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already deci...

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisu...

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit withou...

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual pr...

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his le...

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Fina...

CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. T...