Clearly Quote by E. B. White

I am never needlessly obscure - I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

— Donald Barthelme

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

— Anonymous

In trying to be concise I become obscure.

— Horace

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

— Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

— Horace

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

— Horace

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for…

— Hilary Mason

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

— Horace

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Struggling to be brief I become obscure.”

— Horace

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to…

— Alec Guinness