Famous Ambrose Bierce Quotes

  • Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce

    Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.– Ambrose Bierce

  • A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. – Ambrose Bierce

    A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.– Ambrose Bierce

  • In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent – Ambrose Bierce

    In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent– Ambrose Bierce

  • The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce

    The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.– Ambrose Bierce

  • Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce

    Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.– Ambrose Bierce

  • Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

    Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.– Ambrose Bierce

  • So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth! – Ambrose Bierce

    So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth!– Ambrose Bierce

  • Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! – Ambrose Bierce

    Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!– Ambrose Bierce

  • Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce

    Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.– Ambrose Bierce

  • Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. – Ambrose Bierce

    Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.– Ambrose Bierce