Quills Quotes
38 quotes by 33 authors
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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
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Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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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
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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
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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
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I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.
— Clifton Webb
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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
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I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
— Christopher Plummer
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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
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He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.
— Fred Allen
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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
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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
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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
— John Milton
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Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
— Herman Melville
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I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
— Oscar Nunez
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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
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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
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Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
— John Florio
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Quills Quotes
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