Ambrose Bierce Quote - In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

Character Quotes

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

"In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity."

— Ambrose Bierce

Download

Download in different sizes

Phone Wallpaper 1080 x 1920 Desktop Wallpaper 1920 x 1080 Square Post 1080 x 1080 Instagram Portrait 1080 x 1350 Whatsapp Status 1080 x 1920 Facebook Cover 820 x 312

Details

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Category: Character
Tags: Character Emotion Humanity Playful Reflective

Meaning of this quote

People contain competing impulses toward aggression, appetite, folly and beauty.

Key takeaway: Notice which impulse is directing a particular decision.

Origin of the quote

The Devil’s Dictionary.

Who actually said this?

Verified

Matched in Bierce’s satirical dictionary; dictionary labels and punctuation may be omitted in the supplied title. These are satirical definitions, not neutral factual definitions.

Attributed author: Ambrose Bierce

More Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

View all

Ambrose Bierce Quote - LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

Free

Life

AMBROSE BIERCE

Life Macabre mortality Satire Wry

Ambrose Bierce Quote - RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Free

Humility

AMBROSE BIERCE

Humility Knowledge Reason Skeptical Wry

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Free

Cautionary

AMBROSE BIERCE

Cautionary Conflict Costs Law Sardonic

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Free

Confession

AMBROSE BIERCE

Confession Law Prayer Skeptical Universe

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Free

Betrayal

AMBROSE BIERCE

Betrayal Bitter Character Cheating Virtue

Ambrose Bierce Quote - The covers of this book are too far apart.

Free

Book

AMBROSE BIERCE

Book Distance Mocking

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Free

Appearance

AMBROSE BIERCE

Appearance Critical Earth Face Genius

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Free

Cautionary

AMBROSE BIERCE

Cautionary Courage Fear Judgment Playful

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.

Free

Dialogue

AMBROSE BIERCE

Dialogue Humor Playful Wine

Ambrose Bierce Quote - History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Free

Cynical

AMBROSE BIERCE

Cynical Fake Fools History Important

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

Free

Bitter

AMBROSE BIERCE

Bitter Critical Exclusion Inequality Wealth

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Free

Humility

AMBROSE BIERCE

Humility Logic Reason Skeptical Wry

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Free

Culture

AMBROSE BIERCE

Culture Food Playful Satire

Ambrose Bierce Quote - There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

Free

Instrument

AMBROSE BIERCE

Instrument Playful Worst

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Free

Awareness

AMBROSE BIERCE

Awareness Hope Reflective Time Wistful

Ambrose Bierce Quote - Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Free

Cynical

AMBROSE BIERCE

Cynical Disappointment Expectation Time

You May Like