Home » Quote » Ambrose Bierce » „Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.“ „Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.“ — Ambrose Bierce Tags:DespairPatience Related quotes „Patience is a conquering virtue.“ — Geoffrey Chaucer „Grant of patience (from Allah) is in proportion to the extent of calamity you are passing through. If you exhibit fretfulness, irritation, and despair in calamities, then your patience and your exertions are wasted.“ — Ali „Her childhood, then her adolescence, had taught her patience, hope, silence and the easy manipulation of the weapons and virtues of all prisoners.“ — Colette „The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.“ — William Shakespeare „The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!“ — Nikos Kazantzakis