Pen Quotes
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. (Quote by - Pope Pius IX)
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. (Quote by - John Philip Sousa)
The pen has shaken nations. (Quote by - Martin Farquhar Tupper)
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth. (Quote by - David Brock)
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. (Quote by - Joseph Fiennes)
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen. (Quote by - Walid Jumblatt)
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen. (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)
Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. (Quote by - J. M. Synge)
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine. (Quote by - Immanuel Velikovsky)
I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. (Quote by - Mitch Hedberg)
Pen, wax and parchment govern the world. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali Jinnah)
In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers. (Quote by - John Adams)
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen. (Quote by - Mitch Hedberg)
Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink What writers think? Oh, wisely write, That pages white Be not the worse for ink and thee. (Quote by - Ethel Lynn Beers)
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. (Quote by - John Ciardi)
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. (Quote by - Quintilian)
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. (Quote by - Guillermo Cabrera Infante)
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. (Quote by - Walt Disney)
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. (Quote by - John Oldham)
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. (Quote by - Jack Prelutsky)
The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. (Quote by - Henry Vaughan)
Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing. (Quote by - Dorothy Berry)
To hold a pen is to be at war. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. (Quote by - Terry Prachett)
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. (Quote by - George Dennison Prentice)
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)
The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper. (Quote by - Philip Schaff)
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. (Quote by - Samuel Lover)
The pen is mightier than the sword. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. (Quote by - Anne Tyler)
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? (Quote by - Sir John Davies)
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand (than Goldsmith), or more wise when he had. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. (Quote by - Jackson Pollock)
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. (Quote by - John Cleveland)
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. (Quote by - Maimonides)
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. (Quote by - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite)
Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. (Quote by - Grace Darling)
These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world. (Quote by - Christiaan Rudolf de Wet)
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen. (Quote by - Shmuel Y. Agnon)
Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton)
The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing. (Quote by - Henry Constable)
In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself. (Quote by - Joanna Southcott)
If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said. (Quote by - Kevin Nealon)
Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction. (Quote by - Glenn Tipton)
I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium. (Quote by - Mackenzie Crook)
If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen. (Quote by - Bill Owens)
The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day. (Quote by - C. S. Forester)
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. (Quote by - Mary Harris Jones)
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. (Quote by - Harriet Ann Jacobs)
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
Oh! nature's noblest gift--my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen, That might instrument of little men! (Quote by - Lord Byron)
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
Take away the sword; States can be saved without it; bring the pen. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton)
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. (Quote by - Quentin Tarantino)
The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing. (Quote by - Sir Francis Nethersole)
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. (Quote by - Julia Ward Howe)
I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen. (Quote by - Jason Williams)
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter. (Quote by - Mary Lou Retton)
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death. (Quote by - Robert Toombs)
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. (Quote by - Marlo Thomas)
I'll make thee famous by my pen, And glorious by my sword. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment. (Quote by - Quintilian)
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. (Quote by - Helmut Newton)
Pens carry further than rifled cannon. (Quote by - Bayard Taylor)
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will. (Quote by - Buffy Sainte-Marie)
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. (Quote by - Petrarch)
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia. (Quote by - Mercy Otis Warren)
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. (Quote by - Michael Ondaatje)
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question. (Quote by - Todd Solondz)
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. (Quote by - Shelby Foote)
I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed. (Quote by - Daniela Pestova)
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. (Quote by - James Joyce)
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. (Quote by - Paul Simon)
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. (Quote by - Paul Graham)
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands. (Quote by - Abdallah II)
The pen became a clarion. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. (Quote by - Helen Reddy)
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. (Quote by - Louis de Rouvroy duc de St. Simon)
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. (Quote by - Dale Dauten)
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. (Quote by - Irvin S. Cobb)
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. (Quote by - Marty Feldman)
I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that. (Quote by - Theo Van Gogh)
The pen is the lever that moves the world. (Quote by - Thomas De Witt Talmage)
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. (Quote by - Jay Dratler)
