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Obscure Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is…
- There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble…
- She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a…
- Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are…
- Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
More Obscure Quotes
- I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I… — Bjork
- What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my… — William Blake
- A Constitution should be short and obscure. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures… — Constantin Brancusi
- I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten… — Robert Browning
- A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to… — James Buchan
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase… — Tom Clancy
- Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. — Maya Angelou
- There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is… — J. William Fulbright