Ambrose Bierce Love Quotations

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

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

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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

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

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.

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

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

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.

The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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

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

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.