Home » Quote » Ambrose Bierce » „Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.“ „Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.“ — Ambrose Bierce Related quotes „FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.“ — Douglas Adams „Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.“ — Ambrose Bierce „In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.“ — Hannah Arendt „Politics are almost as exciting as war, and – quite as dangerous … [I]n war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.“ — Winston S. Churchill „Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.“ — Ambrose Bierce