Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce fought through the American Civil War, was wounded at Kennesaw Mountain, and spent the rest of his life writing with a cold eye about war, hypocrisy and death. The Devil's Dictionary redefines ordinary words with a cynicism that has not dated at all. In 1913, aged seventy-one, he went to Mexico to observe the revolution and was never heard from again. His definitions are the most quotable thing an American misanthrope has produced.