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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