Famous Quotes
39 Quotations with Obscurity.
- 1. Napoleon Bonaparte: Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- 2. Plutarch: Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us benefici ...
- 3. Joseph Addison: It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness t ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life an ...
- 5. Chateaubriand: What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disapp ...
- 6. Tom Stoppard: We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style ...
- 7. Alexander Hamilton: The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom for ...
- 8. Anna Comnena: Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all creat ...
- 9. James Thurber: Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of ...
- 10. Thomas Hardy: Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserv ...
- 11. Abbe Henri Huvelin: Faith is the little night light that burns in a sick room; as long as it is ther ...
- 12. Emily Bronte: If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be k ...
- 13. Aldous Huxley: I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like ce ...
- 14. Robert Emmet: Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindica ...
- 15. Edward Gibbon: My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity ...
- 16. Author Unknown: Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and d ...
- 18. David Lehman: Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned ...
- 19. David Lehman: Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned ...
- 20. Mark Twain: Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.