An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?
