Quotes By Ambrose Bierce

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.