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Tag Name "Epigram" (32)

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Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.
Joseph P. Farrell
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EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
Ambrose Bierce
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Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.
Joseph P. Farrell
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Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.
Kenneth Rexroth
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Every epigram should resemble a bee it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
Martial
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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.
Nicolas Chamfort
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Oscar Levant
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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
Shailer Mathews
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An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper
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A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?
William Shakespeare
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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.
Ambrose Bierce
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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.
Dorothy Parker
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
Edward Young
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An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom a wisecrack, their divorce.
Evan Esar
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Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.
Helen Rowland
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
James Russell Lowell
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There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.
Margaret Atwood
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An epigram is a flashlight of a truth a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
Minna Antrim
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You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
Norman Douglas
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