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“Abstinent : personne faible qui cède à la tentation de se refuser un plaisir.”
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“Présidence : le cochon le plus gras du champ de la politique.”
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“Patience : forme mineure de désespoir, déguisée en vertu.”
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“Tableaux : représentations en deux dimensions des choses inintéressantes en trois.”
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“Immigrant : individu mal informé qui pense qu'un pays est meilleur qu'un autre.”
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“Politesse : forme la plus acceptable de l'hypocrisie.”
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“Irréfléchi : insensible à la valeur de votre conseil.”
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“Égoïste : une personne de mauvais goût, plus intéressée à elle-même qu'à moi.”
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“Bien-être : état d'esprit produit par la contemplation des ennuis d'autrui.”
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Ambrose Bierce: Citations en anglais
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Source: The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works
“Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.”
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.”
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works
“ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting”
Variante: Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Source: The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
“Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Contexte: Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.”
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Contexte: Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous
“Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.”
Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
