Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Love

• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

• NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.149, 谷月社

• PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Philosophy, Names

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

• LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Temporary Insanity, Patient

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

• LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Men, Light

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2446, Delphi Classics

• ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Truth, Faults

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.11, University of Georgia Press

• MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Mercy, Attributes

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

• Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

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  Love, Appreciation, Rewards And Recognition

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 13

• You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

• Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Women, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.56, 谷月社

• Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Women, Fall

• The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Knowledge, Quality

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.13, 谷月社

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