Epigram Quotes
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Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing.
— Evan Adam Ang
What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,Its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
— Oscar Wilde
I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
— William James
Epigram, than which, if one is content with ostensible
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.
— George Harrison
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
— Oscar Wilde
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
I'd thought there'd be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway - silently, suddenly.
— You Jin
As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.
— Ken Liu
The other day I made an epigram. I said, Anni's beauty is only sin-deep. I hope that's original? Is it? Please laugh.
— Christopher Isherwood
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.
— Simonides
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
— Don Marquis
Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.
— Frank Herbert
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
— William Cowper
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
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."
— Hilaire Belloc
Someone I flattered in a book pretends he owes me nothing. Oh the trash I have for friends.- Martial (40 AD - 104 AD), Epigram V, xxxvi — Marcus Valerius Martialis
Whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England.
— G.K. Chesterton
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
— Oscar Wilde
There were three things Gimme Lao did not know about himself.
— Sebastian Sim
Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.
— Neel Burton
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
A broken spoon may become a fork.
— Stephen King
Turn off the light!Who?
Not me,
but you! — Kim Da-Jeong
Words ... To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.
— Seamus Heaney
When guys gnash their teeth and knit their brows in a broody, furious expression, it means they have found their soulmate.
— The Harvard Lampoon
You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
— Norman Douglas
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
— Delmore Schwartz
An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
— Shailer Mathews
Once is never. Twice is always.
— James S.A. Corey
Pak Karman hugged his wife's gravestone tightly. "You left without saying farewell!" The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.
— Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
Every man lives at swordspoint.
— Ellen Kushner
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
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
When God will chastise a man, He first of all deprives him of his reason ...
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
— Raphael Millet
An epigram a day keeps the mind from going astray.
— Dr Steven Bottomley
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
— James Russell Lowell
Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.
— Helen Rowland
