1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

HASH: There is no definition for this word – nobody knows what hash is.

Prejudice – a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame’s eternal dumping ground.

It is one of the important uses of civility to signify resentment.

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London.

An egotist is a person of low taste – more interested in himself than in me.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow.

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa.

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of ‘Cogito ergo sum’ to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved ‘Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum’ ‘I think that I think, therefore I think that I am’ as close an approach.