epigram quotes

   What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  'Epigram'.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

- Don(ald Robert Perry) Marquis
Quoted in E  Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.

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 ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Sunset Gun,'OscarWilde'.