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.
Pen Quotes
Pen and ink is wit’s plough.
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
Song is the pen of the soul.
Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.
The pen is mightier than the sword. The case for prescriptions rather than surgery.
Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen; he will be good but god knows When. (Written in a child’s copy book.)
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
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.
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.
