Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit We all assume that Oscar said it.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night God said, Let Newton be, and all was light. Epigram on Sir Isaac Newton by Alexander Pope.
A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, with a hang noose at the end.
I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.... The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art I altered the minds of men and the colour of things there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder.... I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
An epigram is a flashlight of a truth a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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