Quotes with epigram

  • To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Lionel Strachey A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Shailer Mathews An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
    Shailer Mathews
    American theologian (1863 - 1941)
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  • Oscar Levant An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Edwin P. Whipple An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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  • Oscar Wilde He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.
    The Weight of Glory
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • John Updike To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity, and wit its soul.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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