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
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.
Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.
A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.