Character Quote by Bill Vaughan

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

— John Adams

“In the act of writing he experiences, today, an exceptional sensual pleasure -- in the feel of the pen, snug in the crook of…

— J.M. Coetzee

“A pen is more personal and that gives me some control over it—a feeling of power as the words flow with the electric thrill…

— Ruskin Bond

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers…

— Joseph Brodsky

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

— J. Norman Collie

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial…

— Brooks Atkinson

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which…

— John Galsworthy

... when I hear people say that penmanship is dead, my response: it's about time.

— Jessica Bennett

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else and usually its reading his own handwriting.

— G Norman Collie

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great…

— Joseph Addison

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

— Anonymous

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

— Lord Acton