A Quote by Oscar Wilde

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

Oscar Wilde

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Marcus Garvey

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

Lydia Millet

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

Stephen Colbert

The pencil is mightier than the pen.

Robert M. Pirsig

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Marty Feldman

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

Marty Feldman

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

Daniel Handler

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

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Douglas MacArthur

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

John Philip Sousa

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.