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
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.