Top 16 Devil Dictionary Quotes

#1. 'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.

Victor LaValle

Devil Dictionary Quotes #274948
#2. The person who suffers from inner poverty is relentlessly driven to accumulate on the material level.

David R. Hawkins

Devil Dictionary Quotes #310906
#3. Terry," Jennelle waved a hand in front of her monitor, disrupting Terry's view, "he has a tattoo on his back! I know this because his shirt is untucked and starting to ride up. This means skin, hun.

Kate Whitaker

Devil Dictionary Quotes #495700
#4. The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.

Adrian Rogers

Devil Dictionary Quotes #549145
#5. GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Chet Williamson

Devil Dictionary Quotes #587946
#6. We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

Andrew Niccol

Devil Dictionary Quotes #815456
#7. People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

G.K. Chesterton

Devil Dictionary Quotes #865888
#8. It's not important - it's not necessary that you read everything. What is necessary is that you care about things that you read and that you find something that really matters to you and you try and make something like that.

Edward Hirsch

Devil Dictionary Quotes #965048
#9. I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

William Ellery Channing

Devil Dictionary Quotes #1156380
#10. You can tell a man's character by what he turns up when offered a job - his nose or his sleeves.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

Devil Dictionary Quotes #1215843
#11. I don't want to become a superstar and not see my family anymore.

Jean Dujardin

Devil Dictionary Quotes #1239079
#12. But it's raining cats and dogs,' said Jane.

E. Nesbit

Devil Dictionary Quotes #1551016
#13. AMERICANISM, n. 1) The desire to purge America of all those qualities which make it a more or less tolerable place in which to live; 2) The ability to simultaneously kiss ass, follow your boss's orders, swallow a pay cut, piss in a bottle, cower in fear of job loss, and brag about your freedom.

Ambrose Bierce

Devil Dictionary Quotes #1581672
#14. I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.

Max Winkler

Devil Dictionary Quotes #1603449
#15. These eyes see the incredible benevolence of the universe, which is completely trustworthy in all respects. There is nothing to fear. Everything in each moment is so well taken care of - and always has been.

Suzanne Segal

Devil Dictionary Quotes #1800605
#16. Maybe there are only so many faces in the world. You get old enough, you start seeing 'em used again. Craw

Joe Abercrombie

Devil Dictionary Quotes #1868139

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