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AMBROSE BIERCE AND HIS WICKED ONE-LINERS

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19960225
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A master of the short story and the insult, Ambrose Bierce is remembered best for his one-liners.

In a review, he once dispensed of a book in record time by judging the volume's covers "too far apart."

In The Devil's Dictionary, Bierce defined "peace" as "In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

He called marriage "the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two."

Although there is no dearth of good Bierce biographies, Roy Morris Jr. writes well in Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company ...

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