1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

art, n. This word has no definition.

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.