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Dorothy Berry
Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.
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Ethel Lynn Beers (Ethelinda Eliot)
Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink What writers think? Oh, wisely write, That pages white Be not the worse for ink and thee.
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Henry Constable
The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.
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Lord Byron
Oh! nature's noblest gift--my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen, That might instrument of little men!
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Marcus Valerius Martial
The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.
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Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment. [Lat., Non sest aliena res, quae fere ab honestis negligi solet, cura bene ac velociter scribendi.]
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Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]
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Robert Burton
From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword.
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Sir John Davies
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
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William Shakespeare
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.
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William Wordsworth
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
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