A Quote by Mary Harris Jones

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

Mary Harris Jones

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Mary Harris Jones
American - Activist
August 1, 1837 - November 30, 1930

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mary Harris Jones

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun

Stephen Colbert

I concentrated hard and snapped my fingers. "You don't see the sword," I told the girl. "It's just a ballpoint pen." She blinked. "Um . . . no. It's a sword, weirdo.

Rick Riordan

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

Gustave Flaubert

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.

John Oldham

The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.

George Rogers Clark

The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.

Marty Feldman

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

Marty Feldman

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Julia Ward Howe

If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him.