Blue Pencil

Blue pencil may refer to:

  • Blue pencil (editing), a pencil traditionally used by an editor or sub-editor to show corrections to written copy
  • Blue pencil doctrine, a legal concept in common law countries

Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or pencil:

    “Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps.
    The sky is a blue gum streaked with rose. The trees are black.
    The grackles crack their throats of bone in the smooth air.
    Moisture and heat have swollen the garden into a slum of bloom.
    Pardie! Summer is like a fat beast, sleepy in mildew....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)