Quotes by Bierce, Ambrose

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while livi >>

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. >>

Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world. >>

Quotations about Nuns

Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to medit >>

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a >>

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to anti >>

Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Bierce, Ambrose