Epigrams Quotes
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It is less artificial than his other comedies. The epigrams do not seem to have been added on like candied cherries on a cake.
Ted Morgan -
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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There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper -
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
Thomas Carlyle -
My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.
Ernesto Cardenal -
You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
Norman Douglas