Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.