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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

American - Journalist | June 24, 1842 - 1914

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

Me Person More Taste Low Interested

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Opinion You Who Bigot Entertain

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Positive Voice Top Mistaken

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Drunk Excuse Convenient Getting

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Change Politics Revolution Form

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Others Everything Who Affairs Total

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Skill Equal Left Able Pick Pocket

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Great King Slippery Other Grease

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Famous Miserable Conspicuously

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Nature Spring Trees Leaving Respond

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Secrets Herself Entrusted Confided

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Man Care Own Who Trace Did

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