Famous quotes containing the words epigram and/or english:
“He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“But there is nothing which delights and terrifies our English Theatre so much as a Ghost, especially when he appears in a bloody Shirt. A Spectre has very often saved a Play, though he has done nothing but stalked across the Stage, or rose through a Cleft of it, and sunk again without speaking one Word.”
—Joseph Addison (16721719)