Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Biercewas an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto "Nothing matters", and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work, all earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 June 1842
CityMeighs County, OH
CountryUnited States of America
I was born to poor because of honest parents.
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.