Recondite Quotes

#1. Whisky nosers, as they called themselves, eschewed what they saw as the pretentiousness of wine vocabulary. While oenophiles resorted to recondite adjectives, whisky nosers spoke the language of everyday life, detecting hints of stale seaweed, or even diesel fuel.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. Now Thorndyke is going to enjoy himself. To him a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy forever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery.

R. Austin Freeman

#3. How deep, how recondite this seeming petty heart,
In whose recesses right and wrong lie dimmed by distance.

Soseki Natsume

#4. The tense of the body is the present indicative; but the soul has a memory and a present and a future. I have conceived some extremely recondite pains for Mr. Trellis. I will pierce him with a pluperfect.

Flann O'Brien

#5. Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.

Walter Pater

#6. Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics.

Lord Kelvin

#7. To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Theodor Adorno

#8. We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere.
(on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

John Calvin

#10. The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.

Giorgio Baglivi

#11. The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

H.G.Wells

#12. You need a quiet place where you can find someone who will listen, someone who will make you feel less like a mistake in a universe intended for assholes and Marines.

Christopher Rice

#13. I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.

Waylon Jennings

#14. I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Walt Whitman

#15. In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

Wayne W. Dyer

#16. The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.

Peter Damian

#17. Monday Starts on Saturday.

Arkady Strugatsky

#18. Ultimately, discipling involves living out the whole Christian life before others.

Mark Dever

#19. Nick."
"Yeah?"
"Come to bed. It's too cold to sleep on the floor."
There was a pause. "You sure?"
"Yep"
"Thanks." Nick said.
"Oh, sure. It's nothing. Couldn't let you freeze, not with Jesus watching.

Kristan Higgins

#20. He and Marie wandered through a square

John Jakes

#21. We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.

Liane Moriarty