THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY 

Ambrose Bierce 

I

 

Ignoramus - A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having other kinds that you know nothing about

Imagination - A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership

Impartial - Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions

Impiety - Your irreverence toward my deity

 

Impunity - Wealth 

Infidel - In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

Intimacy - A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction