Pen Quotes

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
Mitch Hedberg

Sick, Caring, Lose

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
Mitch Hedberg

Sorry, Here, Making

To hold a pen is to be at war.
Voltaire

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Women, Great, Power

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney

Days, Sign, Contract

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.
Maimonides

Liar, Same, Books

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Sad, Words, Might

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
Ambrose Bierce

Times, York, Puzzle

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Paul Simon

Humble, Find, Place

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

Short, Sword, Sharp

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Horace

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Thoughts, Write, Within

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen

Education, Men, Story

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Great, Men, Rule

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
Quentin Tarantino

Paper, Piece, Novelist

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock

Game, Mean, Big

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
Gustave Flaubert

Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Beautiful, Strong, Woman

The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Sword, Mightier

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm

Give, Far, Less

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
James Joyce

Time, Quiet, Room

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
Shia LaBeouf

Alone, Find, Able

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Pearl S. Buck

Faith, Work, Hope

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
Laurence Sterne

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Others, Hand, Sword

Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.
Rick Perry

Used, Tax, Abortion

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
Graham Greene

Good, Brain, Two

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Mom, Dad, Friends

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
Maria Sharapova

Someone, Tennis, Carry

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
Samuel Lover

Nothing, Once, Literature

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