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"I visited a lady of world-wide reputation, who gave me a history of the past months in Paris so brilliantly and epigrammatically that I was infinitely amused, and carried away the drollest impressions of L'Empire Cluseret; but her manner changed when I asked her what I should say to her friends in England. 'Tell them, she said, 'to fear everything, and to hope very little.
"I don't like that lady," said Celestina, emphatically, when the dancer had passed on, after petting her and kissing her on the cheek. "Now, it's curious," commented the bard, "but your sex never did." "Do men like her?" asked the child, with premature penetration. "They did; they do; they will!" answered Straws, epigrammatically. "Do you like her?" "Oh, that's different!
"Why don't you trust me?" she asked, in a quiet tone. "It is not necessary that I should," he answered moodily. "The secret that Rosanna Moore told me on her death-bed is nothing that would benefit you to know." "Is it about me?" she persisted. "It is, and it is not," he answered, epigrammatically.
Sparsit with the most indolent of all possible airs. 'We live in a singular world, sir, said Mrs. Sparsit. 'I have had the honour, by a coincidence of which I am proud, to have made a remark, similar in effect, though not so epigrammatically expressed. 'A singular world, I would say, sir, pursued Mrs.
"Miss Felicity," Cardington began, when they had become seated, "I suspect that you were racing against time, endeavouring, in fact, to finish that book before our arrival should interrupt you." "You would not have been welcome a moment sooner," she admitted. "Felicity is a deep student in shallow literature," the bishop put in epigrammatically. "As if Zola were ever shallow," she said.
It is easy to say epigrammatically of such a man that his propensity to ridicule, in which he indulged himself with infinite humor and no distinction, and with inexhaustible spirits and no discretion, made him sought and feared, liked and not loved, by most of his acquaintance; it is easy to say that no sex, no relation, no rank, no power, no profession, no friendship, no obligation, was a shield from those pointed, glittering weapons that seemed only to shine to a stander-by, but cut deep in those they touched.
It is a principle of political economy that prices, profits, wages, etc., “always find their level;” but this is often interpreted as if it meant that they are always, or generally, at their level, while the truth is, as Coleridge epigrammatically expresses it, that they are always finding their level, “which might be taken as a paraphrase or ironical definition of a storm.”
Besides, the conversation had begun to interest her; and she liked being amused too well not to be sorry for its being cut short abruptly. She thought Major Keene talked epigrammatically; and the undercurrent of irony that ran through all he said was not so obtrusive as to seriously offend her. It was no light ordeal he had just passed through.
Once Philippa seemed to awaken to a sense of the situation. Once she asked me 'How she came to my home that night? 'You came out of the whirling snow, and in a high state of delirium, I answered, epigrammatically. 'I thought I came on foot, she replied, dreamily. 'But, Basil, she went on, 'what afterwards? What's the next move, my noble sportsman? What, indeed! Philippa had me there.
The very number and variety of brushes required seemed to Howard an outrage on the love of cheap beauty, so epigrammatically praised by Thucydides; he said with a groan to Maud that it was indeed true that the Nineteenth Century would stand out to all time as the period of the world's history in which more useless things had been made than at any epoch before!
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