Quotes about Pen Vs Sword

Auguste Frederic Louis Viesse de Marmont

You have your pens, Gentlemen, and I have my bayonets. You write with one and I will put the other to work.

Holland was officially Napoleon’s ally, but he and the French military leaders were not satisfied with the military or logistical support they were getting from the Dutch. Field Marshal Marmont was sent to Holland to “improve” the situation. When one of his demands seemed excessive a delegation of leading Dutch politicians met with him and reminded him that Holland was a sovereign country and France military officers could not issue orders in Holland. This was his famous response.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

Daniel Handler

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

King James I

This I must say for Scotland. Here [London] I sit and govern with my pen. I write and it is done, and … I govern Scotland now, which others could not do by the sword.

Stephen Colbert

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

Jasper Fforde

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Marty Feldman

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

Pen Vs Sword Quotes