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epigram

e puh gram

  • n  a witty saying

  • John's famous epigram, 'Watch what we do, not what we say' came home to bite him when he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
  • The more one sees this marvel of technology the more one is convinced of Arthur C. Clarke's epigram that 'any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'
  • His speech was laced with epigrams and that kept the audience riveted, engaged and amused.
News & Articles

  • Snobbish? Yes, but at least we're tidy
    Travel and Leisure magazine has declared the Twin Cities to be the fourth most snobbish city in America. I’m tempted to respond with a dismissive French epigram, but they probably wouldn’t get it.
    July 6, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
  • Snobbish? Yes, but at least we're tidy
    Travel and Leisure magazine has declared the Twin Cities to be the fourth most snobbish city in America. I’m tempted to respond with a dismissive French epigram, but they probably wouldn’t get it.
    July 6, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Quotes

  • Dorothy Parker in guardian.co.uk
    Wilde is now known for more than his wit (As Dorothy Parker wrote, "If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to make an epigram,/ I never seek to take the credit;/ We all assume that Oscar said it") and the iconic libel trial that resulted from the...
  • Osip Mandelstam in Washington Post
    Now, in his 70s, the former Newsweek correspondent has written what may be his finest novel, "The Stalin Epigram," which dramatizes the horrific events that followed after the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam wrote a 16-line epigram that...
  • GK Chesterton in guardian.co.uk
    GK Chesterton wrote: "Almost every one of Shaw's plays is an expanded epigram."

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