“Égoïste : une personne de mauvais goût, plus intéressée à elle-même qu'à moi.”
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“Bien-être : état d'esprit produit par la contemplation des ennuis d'autrui.”
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“Patience : forme mineure de désespoir, déguisée en vertu.”
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“Abstinent : personne faible qui cède à la tentation de se refuser un plaisir.”
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“Tableaux : représentations en deux dimensions des choses inintéressantes en trois.”
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“Présidence : le cochon le plus gras du champ de la politique.”
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“Immigrant : individu mal informé qui pense qu'un pays est meilleur qu'un autre.”
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“Politesse : forme la plus acceptable de l'hypocrisie.”
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“Irréfléchi : insensible à la valeur de votre conseil.”
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Ambrose Bierce: Citations en anglais
“Prejudice, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.”
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: What I Saw At Shiloh (1881), V
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Source: What I Saw At Shiloh (1881), VI
Contexte: I suppose the country lying between Corinth and Pittsburg Landing could boast a few inhabitants other than alligators. What manner of people they were it is impossible to say, inasmuch as the fighting dispersed, or possibly exterminated them; perhaps in merely classing them as non-saurian I shall describe them with sufficient particularity and at the same time avert from myself the natural suspicion attaching to a writer who points out to persons who do not know him the peculiarities of persons whom he does not know. One thing, however, I hope I may without offense affirm of these swamp-dwellers--they were pious. To what deity their veneration was given--whether, like the Egyptians, they worshiped the crocodile, or, like other Americans, adored themselves, I do not presume to guess. But whoever, or whatever, may have been the divinity whose ends they shaped, unto Him, or It, they had builded a temple. This humble edifice, centrally situated in the heart of a solitude, and conveniently accessible to the supersylvan crow, had been christened Shiloh Chapel, whence the name of the battle.
“n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
Source: Epigrams, p. 369
Source: The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce
“Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Apologize, v. To lay the foundation for a future offense.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Contexte: Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think... In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
“A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
