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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cuff, cuffs, egging, premier, straw, straw man
«ANOINT, v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good. --Judibras»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
anoint, functionaries, functionary, greased, populace, priesthood, slippery, sovereigns
«BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market --the fine ones on top --have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
berries, berry, blackguard, blackguards, invert, inverted, Open market
«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.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptably, blank verse, iambic, pentameter, pentameters, unrhymed
«BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.»
«BEHAVIOR, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. The word seems to be somewhat loosely used in Dr. Jamrach Holobom's translation of the following lines from the _Dies Irae_:Recordare, Jesu pie, Quod sum causa tuae viae. Ne me perdas illa die.Pray remember, sacred Savior, Whose the thoughtless hand that gave your Death-blow. Pardon such behavior.»