1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 841. PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by ...
- 842. PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two cr ...
- 843. PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the composit ...
- 844. PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupid ...
- 845. PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
- 846. PROSPECT, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
Blow, blow, ye sp ...
- 847. PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
- 848. PRUDE, n. A bawd hiding behind the back of her demeanor.
- 849. PUBLISH, n. In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.
- 850. PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pul ...
- 851. PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief ...
- 852. QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when ...
- 853. QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the ...
- 854. QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their ...
- 855. QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of th ...
- 856. QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own ...
- 857. QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated. ...
- 858. Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- 859. QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in ...
- 860. R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. ...
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