#epigram

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

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #mythology #men

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#amount #any #audiences #better #epigram

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea. ↗

— George Harrison

#epigram #philosophy #tea

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#irony #life

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. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#cherries #choose #collections #eating #end

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

— William Cowper

#feeble #sting #straw #stuck #tail