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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its deities. Of all unbeautiful and inappropriate conceptions this is the most reasonless and offensive. The notion of symbolizing sexual love by a semisexless babe, and comparing the pains of passion to the wounds of an arrow --of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art grossly to materialize the subtle spirit and suggestion of the work --this is eminently worthy of the age that, giving it birth, laid it on the doorstep of prosperity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«In Italian, a belladonna is a beautiful lady; in English, it's a deadly poison.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
belladonna, deadly, Italian, Italian A
«DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver.As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it. --Barlow S. Vode»
«Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Voting
| Keywords:
ballot, ballots, interpreted, noun, nouns, prized, right to vote, suffrage
«Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Saints
| Keywords:
edited, revise, revised, saint, sinner
«You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.»
«Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Infidelity
| Keywords:
Constantinople, infidel, infidels, The Infidels
«BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
boundary, boundary line, geography, imaginary, separating
«INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Injustice
| Keywords:
carry back, heaviest, lightest, load
«MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, affected, at odds, aught, beating, conforming, declaring, derived, destitute, destitute of, engaging, firmer, illustration, illustrations, illustrious, inmate, inmates, in short, lofty, madhouse, Noah, Noah Webster, noteworthy, occupation, odds, officials, pronounced, sane, sanity, spectators, thoughtless, to the contrary, unusual, Webster