1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 1061. UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
- 1062. ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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- 1063. UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
- 1064. UNCTION, n. An oiling, or greasing. The rite of extreme unction consists in touching with oil consec ...
- 1065. UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by th ...
- 1066. UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
- 1067. UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
- 1068. URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New Yor ...
- 1069. USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Convention ...
- 1070. UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
- 1071. VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
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- 1072. VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
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- 1073. VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
- 1074. VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their w ...
- 1075. VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his ...
- 1076. Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his c ...
- 1077. Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his co ...
- 1078. W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the other ...
- 1079. WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is ...
- 1080. War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
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