The Devil's Dictionary: Iconoclast

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
ICHOR
IDIOT

ICONOCLAST

-n.

A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratified by the performance, and most strenuously protest that he unbuildeth but doth not reedify, that he pulleth down but pileth not up. For the poor things would have other idols in place of those he thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth. But the iconoclast saith: "Ye shall have none at all, for ye need them not; and if the rebuilder fooleth round hereabout, behold I will depress the head of him and sit thereon till he squawk it."

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