Famous quotes containing the word obscure:
“Ill give my jewels for a set of beads,
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
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And my large kingdom for a little grave,
A little, little grave, an obscure grave.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classesour ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
—William Blake (17571827)