Obscure Quotes
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
Vikram Seth
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God and other artists are always a little obscure....
Oscar Wilde
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
Oscar Wilde
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
Kate McKinnon
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Baltasar Gracian
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Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.
D. V. Ager
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I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
Harland Williams
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Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
Adam McKay
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Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White
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It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Joseph Joubert
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
Barbara Pym
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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Obscure, like muddy waters.
Lao Tzu
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The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
Nelson Goodman
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Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.
Charles Lenox Remond
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Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.
William S. Burroughs
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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!
Charlotte Bronte