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:

    “There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”
    —Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)

    “Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise,
    My person degrade & my temper chastise;
    And the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;
    And my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)