0 a short saying or poem that expresses an idea in a clever, funny way: --
One of Oscar Wilde's most frequently quoted epigrams is "I can resist everything except temptation".
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The well-known epigram, "only connect", catches something of the ironies which lie behind today's debate.
I do not want to over-simplify things or become unfair, but the facts spoil many of those epigrams.
I would take only one of his epigrams—if one can call them that.
That is a good epigram, but the negation of democracy by discussion.
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Jackson has a nice turn of phrase and produces epigrams to be savoured.
An epigram is not an episode in a symphonic development but a unit of music theatre, in which music objectifies itself into something abrupt, hieroglyphic, legible.
Often it follows the exact contours of words: but it is the meaning of the words, not the phonetic structure, that the epigram seeks to memorise, to freeze.
