Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Literature
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
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We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.
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A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.
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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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