Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or epigram:
“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)