Quills Quotes

38 quotes by 33 authors

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it… — Pietro Aretino
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills. — Leonardo da Vinci
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have… — Charles Caleb Colton
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge… — Ben Jonson
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a… — Mo Rocca
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. — Clifton Webb
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom...… — Aphra Behn
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. — Christopher Plummer
The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even… — Siri Hustvedt
He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose. — Fred Allen
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there… — Ambrose Bierce
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive… — A J P Taylor
He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. — John Milton
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! — Herman Melville
I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much. — Oscar Nunez
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand,… — Walter Murch
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour… — Lincoln Child
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill. — John Florio
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the… — Ambrose Bierce
Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light,… — Sara Teasdale

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