1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 201. COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff.
- 202. Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
- 203. Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
- 204. CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
In this ...
- 205. CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their d ...
- 206. Creditor: One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their deso ...
- 207. CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.
- 208. CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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- 209. CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solem ...
- 210. CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do _me_?
- 211. CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its ...
- 212. CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflict ...
- 213. CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman ...
- 214. CURSE, v.t. Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operation which in literat ...
- 215. Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
- 216. DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is lost. By the learne ...
- 217. DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor' ...
- 218. DANGER, n.
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- 219. DARING, n. One of the most conspicuous qualities of a man in security.
- 220. DATARY, n. A high ecclesiastic official of the Roman Catholic Church, whose important function is to ...
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