Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Desire

• Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Ambition, Reality

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 17

• REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Desire, Denial, Lasts

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

• Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Passion, Soul, Curiosity

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.601, Library of America

• Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Desire, Literature, Lines

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Expectations, Hopeful

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.92, 谷月社

• REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Desire, Weight, Reason

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.246, ReadHowYouWant.com

• aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, Desire, Tasks

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2354, Delphi Classics

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