Pens Quotes

616 Pens quotes by 492 unique authors

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen. — Rudyard Kipling
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee… — Pierre Loti
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create… — Josiah Stamp
Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched… — Camille Flammarion
In love matters; keep your pen from paper. — Alfred de Musset
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 that… — Joseph Brodsky
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. — Charles Dickens
My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and… — Richard Baxter
The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. — Richard Watson Gilder
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… — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on… — Bernardino Ramazzini
The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing… — Al-Ghazali
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written. — Miguel de Cervantes
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. — Henry Fielding
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude… — Frank Yerby
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They… — Mark Twain
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work. — Sinclair Lewis

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