1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Least said is soon disavowed.

NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.