Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors -- to dislodge the worms.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to.
"Cheer up! Have you no aim in life?" She tenderly inquired. "An aim? Well, no, I haven't, wife; The fact is -- I have fired." G.J. - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- ALLAH, n. The Mahometan Supreme Being, as distinguished from the Christian, Jewish, and so forth.
Allah's good laws I faithfully have kept, And ever for the sins of man have wept; And sometimes kneeling in the temple I Have reverently crossed my hands and slept. Junker Barlow - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- ALLEGIANCE, n.
This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. G.J. - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|