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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Caucasian, Caucasians, emetic, emetics, Mongolian, Russian, tartar, Tartars, tartar emetic
«Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
domination, incompatibility, matrimony, particularly, similarity, tastes
«Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.»
«Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Hypocrisy,
Politeness
| Keywords:
acceptable, hypocrisy, politeness
«Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
deity, impieties, impiety, irreverence
«The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
advised, ill-advised, Marriages, ravage, ravaged, ravages, virginity
«Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Electricity,
Power
| Keywords:
electricity, natural causes, natural phenomenon, phenomena
«Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Beauty,
Language
| Keywords:
belladonna, deadly, English tongue, identity, Italian, Italian A, striking, The Italian, tongues
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible