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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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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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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
Oscar Wilde
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
William James
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I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
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All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
Delmore Schwartz
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Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.
Edward Topsell
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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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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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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