Quotes About Bierce

A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distin-quished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

There is more poison in aphorisms than in painted candy; but it is of a less seductive kind.

GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.