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Tag Name "Epigram" (32)

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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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Every epigram should resemble a bee it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
Martial
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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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All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
Delmore Schwartz
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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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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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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
Oscar Wilde
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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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