The quill hath a good tongue. [ Yriarte ]

Great authorities are arguments. [ Daniel Webster ]

Apt quotations carry conviction. [ Gladstone ]

Backed his opinion with quotations. [ Prior ]

A little instrument of mighty power. [ Cervantes ]

Why read a book which you cannot quote? [ Bentley ]

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies
And turn delight into a sacrifice. [ George Herbert ]

With just enough of learning to misquote. [ Byron ]

Fine words! I wonder where yon stole them. [ Swift ]

A quill hath proved the noblest gift to man. [ Byron ]

Oh! Nature's noblest gift - my graygoose quill! [ Byron ]

At the point of the pen is the focus of the mind. [ J. L. Basford ]

Oh! nature's noblest gift - my grey goosed quill:
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen,
That mighty instrument of little men! [ Byron ]

A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw. [ Proverb ]

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not. [ Emerson ]

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

The thought hath good legs and the quill a good tongue. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The thought has good wings, and the quill a good tongue. [ Proverb ]

I like writing with a peacock's quill, because its feathers are all eyes. [ Proverb ]

Will no superior genius snatch the quill, and save me on the brink from writing ill? [ Young ]

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucylides with a brazen stylus. [ Joubert ]

Quills are things that are sometimes taken from the pinions of one goose to spread the opinions of another. [ Chatfield ]

The feather whence the pen was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, dropped from an angel's wing. [ Wordsworth ]

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [ William Shakespeare ]