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a witty saying

In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina

But what will the Chief do at Birmingham without the epigrams whispered to him by his brilliant secretary?
Chesterton, Gilbert K. -- The Man Who Knew Too Much
Few of the poems extend beyond fifteen or twenty lines in length, and many are mere epigrams of four lines or even two.
Fletcher, Robert Huntington -- A History of English Literature
Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?
William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
Sometimes the doctor made philosophic epigrams.
Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio
But the old lady, with the serenity of supreme power, let her son make her epigrams for her.
Henry James -- The American
Stephen had fallen by mistake into his habit of playful appeal to Maggie, and she could not repress the answering flush and epigram.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
The epigram was widely reported.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
The epigram, with its faint whiff of the eighties, meant nothing.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
"Like her rivals," said Mr. Sillerton Jackson, with the air of producing an epigram.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
"With Italy and with you," said Mr. Goodwood with gloomy plainness and no appearance of trying to make an epigram.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
They'd invited me, and first of all I began quoting epigrams.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
Reciting Latin epigrams to business majors in a place called Paradise Valley.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
She missed Cecil's epigram, but grasped the feeling that prompted it.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
A manipulator, an orator, a writer of bills and crafty epigrams.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
"Yes, ultimately," said Mrs. Garth, who having a special dislike to fine words on ugly occasions, could not now repress an epigram.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
But the epigram would be as good if Tolstoy's name were put in place of mine and D'Annunzio's in place of Tolstoy.
George Bernard Shaw -- Mrs. Warren's Profession
He quoted to Philip the exquisite epigram: "They told me, Herakleitus, they told me you were dead.'
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

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