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:

    “I have just come down from my father.
    Higher and higher he lies
    Above me in a blue light
    Shed by a tinted window.”
    —James Dickey (b. 1923)

    “For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indians and hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)