JESTER, n. An...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

WRITERS A-H > journalist, short-story writer > Ambrose Bierce

JESTER, n. An...

Vendor: WRITERS A-H

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose Bierce, (Jun 24 1842-1914), US journalist, short-story writer; He was a noted wit, satirist and sardonic short story writer who disappeared while covering the Mexican revolution.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA