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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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«RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Caucasian, Caucasians, emetic, emetics, Mongolian, Russian, tartar, Tartars, tartar emetic
«Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
domination, incompatibility, matrimony, particularly, similarity, tastes
«Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.»
«Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Hypocrisy,
Politeness
| Keywords:
acceptable, hypocrisy, politeness
«Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
deity, impieties, impiety, irreverence
«The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
advised, ill-advised, Marriages, ravage, ravaged, ravages, virginity
«Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises»
«Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Electricity,
Power
| Keywords:
electricity, natural causes, natural phenomenon, phenomena
«Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Beauty,
Language
| Keywords:
belladonna, deadly, English tongue, identity, Italian, Italian A, striking, The Italian, tongues
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible
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