Ambrose Bierce Quotes

“BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:talking boredom listening

“In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:hate independence

“PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:peace

“DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:justice

“LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:law

“DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:slavery

“LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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