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#epigram

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.


Oscar Wilde


#epigram #tabloid-journalism #wisdom #wisdom

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.


Margaret Atwood


#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.


Oscar Wilde


#benevolence #epigram #reputation #wild

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


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#brevity #dwarfish #epigram #soul #whole

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.


Charles Williams


#epigrams #god #high #indeed #intelligence

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.


Oscar Wilde


#humor #men #women #humor

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


Don Marquis


#epigram #like #newspaper #platitude #stroke

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.


W. Somerset Maugham


#epigrams #few #make #only #tell

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.


F. H. Bradley


#cold #dull #epigrams #experiences #fixed

[On Oscar Wilde:] "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


#epigrams #humor #oscar-wilde #tribute #wit






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