I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his facult….

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a mat….

What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that….

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well..

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity..

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature..

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.

You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its v….

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity..

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him..

Obscurity often brings safety..

Obscurity brings safety..

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read..

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help..

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his wo….

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banalit….

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse..

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity..

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity..

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire som….

I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so direct….