WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 05 May 2026 17:55:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg infidel – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Bierce, Ambrose -- “Infidel,” The Cynic’s Word Book (1906) https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/72365/ https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/72365/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:42:39 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=72365 INFIDEL, n. […] A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbés, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonzes, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lecturers, churchwardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, curés, sophis, muftis, and pumpums.


Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Infidel,” The Cynic’s Word Book (1906)
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Included in The Devil's Dictionary (1911). Originally published in the "Devil's Dictionary" column in the San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-10). ]]> https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/72365/feed/ 0 72365 Jefferson, Thomas -- Letter (1816-08-06) to Margaret Bayard Smith https://wist.info/jefferson-thomas/14581/ https://wist.info/jefferson-thomas/14581/#respond Mon, 09 May 2011 12:51:40 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=14581 My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.


Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Letter (1816-08-06) to Margaret Bayard Smith ]]> https://wist.info/jefferson-thomas/14581/feed/ 0 14581