#obscure

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. ↗

— Horace

#brief #i #obscure #struggle

I strive to be brief but I become obscure. ↗

— Horace

#brief #i #obscure #strive

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. ↗

— Horace

#concise #i #labouring #obscure

A Constitution should be short and obscure. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#obscure #short #should

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. ↗

— Robert Browning

#even #fight #forgotten #give #god

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#better #ever #gene #good #had

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#campaign #cannot #debate #defense #issues

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

#case #discussed #excessively #hundred #ninety-nine

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#circle #every #his #narrow

Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove; I caused a rumor to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram. You-you strange-you almost unearthly thing!-I love as my own flesh. You-poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are-I entreat to accept me as a husband. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#obscure #skeptic #love