Epigram Quotes

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

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.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.