Ambrose Bierce Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: June 24, 1842 - 1914
Birthday: June 24
Death: 1914
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
source: Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.776, Library of America
topic: Expectations, Done, Assassins, Respite, Prosecuting
