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Quills Quotes

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Marquis de Sade
Running, Quills, Conversation

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

Clifton Webb
Writing, Use, Quills
"Fictional character: Waldo Lydecker". "Laura", 1944.

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

George R. R. Martin
Ravens, Battle, Quills
George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.78, Bantam

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

Josh Billings
Witty, Porcupines, Quills

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Christopher Plummer
Use, Computer, Quills

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

Kate Winslet
Madness, Quills
"Fictional character: Madeleine". "Quills", www.imdb.com. 2000.

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

John Milton
Quills, Various, Lays
'Lycidas' (1638) l. 186

How d’you spell ‘belligerent’?” said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. “It can’t be B — U — M —” “No, it isn’t,” said Hermione. “And ‘augury’ doesn’t begin O — R — G either.

J. K. Rowling
Hermione, Quills, Said

The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.

Arthur Guiterman
Deer, Quills
Arthur Guiterman, “Safety First”

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.

George Herbert
Tongue, Quills
George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.346

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