9 Ambrose Bierce Quotes on Irony

Ambrose Bierce quotes on irony

1. Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone: A thousand critics shouting: 'He's unknown!'

2. Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.

14. Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.

23. Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

40. Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

62. Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.

64. Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

91. Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forgo.

104. The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.