Author: Ambrose Bierce

Cites

• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Fiend's Delight by Dod Grile (1873) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL

Cited by

• Jocelyn Lau (1)
  • IN: Hey There Tot! (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
    FROM: The Devil's Dictionary, (1906), Book, US
• Ben Bova (1)
  • IN: Power Surge (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
    FROM: The Devil's Dictionary, (1906), NULL, US
• George Sterling (1)
  • IN: The Testimony of the Suns (1903) Poetry, American
    EPIGRAPH: To Whom the unceasing suns belong, And cause is one with consequence,— To Whose divine inclusive sense The moan is blended with the song.
    FROM: Invocation, (1888), Poem, US
• Kasia Boddy Smith, Ali Wood, Sarah (1)
  • IN: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer (2009) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: argue, v.t. To attentively consider with the tongue.
    FROM: The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, (2001), Book, US
• Paul Levine (1)
  • IN: State Vs. Lassiter (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.”
    FROM: The Devil's Dictionary, (1906), Book, US
• Carlos Fuentes (1)
  • IN: The Old Gringo (1985) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What they call dying is merely the last pain.
    FROM: Parker Adderson, Philosopher, (1891), Short story, US