English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Ambrose Bierce Quotes

History? An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Melissa Joan Hart quote: "I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together."
I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together. Melissa Joan Hart
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. John Stuart Mill
Conrad Hall quote: "I realize that every picture isn't a work of art."
I realize that every picture isn't a work of art. Conrad Hall
If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday. Sophia Bush
Reggie Jackson quote: "After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball..."
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. Reggie Jackson
Robert Jackson quote: "We can afford no liberties with liberty itself."
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. Robert Jackson
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. Johann Arndt
Robert B. Parker quote: "Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at..."
Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University. Robert B. Parker
Moliere quote: "I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper."
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper. Moliere
E. B. White quote: "Writing is both mask and unveiling."
Writing is both mask and unveiling. E. B. White
You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking 'ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult' and it turns out to be the most incredible experience. Kathleen Robertson
I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be. Marilyn Manson
All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor. Graham Kerr
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back. Pat Conroy
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every thing has a life of its own, and that we are all one life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge