“I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ”
William James
“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
“Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram”
Karl Kraus
“An epigrams is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall”
Oscar Levant
“An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting”
William Cowper
“An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.”
“'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard”
Marcus Aurelius
