Hard Quote by Cecilia Gray

“Politic, cautious, and meticulous; full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse”

— T.S. Eliot

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start…

— Anonymous

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

— Stendhal

If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking…

— James Dyson

“Men are obtuse. You have to beat them over the head with a frying pan to get them to notice things.”

— Jaci Burton

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

— Anonymous

If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything…

— Alexis Taylor

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because…

— James Dyson

“Then he just blurted it out, with no preparation. 'The truth of it is that whether your mother arranged our marriage, or whether it…

— Eloisa James

“What are you reading?" Polonius asked. "Words, words, words," said Hamlet. "And what's the subject?" "Lesser than the king, but still not nothing." It…

— Orson Scott Card