(6 quotes found)
“QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.”
Ambrose Bierce
“A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw”
English Proverb
“Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills”
William Shakespeare
“Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!”
Herman Melville
“Quill was militant but he often blustered and then settled at the last minute. Quill also was everywhere in city politics. Roger Toussaint has not been that kind of presence.”
Robert Snyder
“The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.”
Henry Constable
