Quill Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Quill


The quill hath a good tongue. Yriarte.	1
A quill hath proved the noblest gift to man. Byron.	2
A little instrument of mighty power. Cervantes.	3
At the point of the pen is the focus of the mind. J. L. Basford.	4
Oh! Nature’s noblest gift—my gray-goose quill! Byron.	5
Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. Shakespeare.	6
A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe. H. W. Shaw.	7
Quills are things that are sometimes taken from the pinions of one goose to spread the opinions of another. Chatfield.	8
The feather whence the pen was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, dropped from an angel’s wing. Wordsworth.	9