20 Quotations with Epigram.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A ...
- 5. Thomas Carlyle: France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
- 6. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- 7. Edwin P. Whipple: An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
- 8. C. S. Lewis: No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines re ...
- 9. Lionel Strachey: A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
- 10. Author Unknown: A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
- 11. Minna Antrim: An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
- 12. Oscar Levant: An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
- 13. W. Somerset Maugham: Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
- 14. Oscar Wilde: He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombston ...
- 15. Francis H. Bradley: Our life experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart' ...
- 16. Adlai E. Stevenson: The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
- 17. John Updike: To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from ...
- 18. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- 19. Sufi Epigram: When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it h ...
- 20. Ted Morgan: It is less artificial than his other comedies. The epigrams do not seem to have ...
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