Pen Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old pen quotes, pen sayings, and pen proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. Jane Austen
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
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai
The pen has shaken nations. Martin Farquhar Tupper
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. Martin Luther
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. Marty Feldman
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
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. Paul Simon
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us, or wound us while they charm; but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away — sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come. Petrarch
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle. Philip James Bailey
I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. Tara Bray Smith
Go on then in doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword: shew that reformation is more practicable by operating on the mind than on the body of man. Thomas Jefferson
There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angel's pen, Ere Mercy weeps them out again. Thomas Moore
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
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