"EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose……" — Ambrose Bierce

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• EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.… — Ambrose Bierce
• An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half. — Shailer Mathews
• What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting. — William Cowper
• All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram. — Delmore Schwartz
• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. — W. Somerset Maugham
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• In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
• If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all… — Dorothy Parker