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| | Aubrey Beardsley |  | In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? |
| | James Chalmers | | Having defined the best government, I will humbly attempt to describe good Kings by the following unerring rule. The best Princes are constantly calumniated by the envenomed tongues and pens of the most worthless of their subjects. For this melancholy truth, do I appeal to the testimony of impartial historians, and long experience. |
| | Graham Greene | | 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. |
| | Alan King | | Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? |
| | Alan Perlis | | We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. |
| | Carl Reiner | | Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. |
| | John Taylor | | Pens are most dangerous tools, more sharp by odds than swords, and cut more keen than whips or rods. |
| | Voltaire | | We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. |
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