Epigram Quotes

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

'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard. - Marcus Aurelius

Three things must epigrams, like bees have all - A sting and honey and a body small. - Latin Proverb

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm and epigram. - Edwin P Whipple

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. - James Russell Lowell

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. - Hendrik Willem Van Loon

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram. - Ambrose Bierce