Best Ambrose Bierce Quotes With Image

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Self-evident: Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

Day:A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Consolation:The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

Consult:To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.

Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Ardor:The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.