Famous quotes containing the word obscure:
“the soul,
Remembering how she felt, but what she felt
Remembering not, retains an obscure sense
Of possible sublimity,”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads,
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
...
And my large kingdom for a little grave,
A little, little grave, an obscure grave.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)