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:

    “Buz, quoth the blue fly,
    Hum, quoth the bee,
    Buz and hum they cry,
    And so do we:
    In his ear, in his nose, thus, do you see?
    He ate the dormouse, else it was he.”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “Then, bringing me the joy we feel when wee see a work by our favorite painter which differs from any other that we know, or if we are led before a painting of which we have until then only seen a pencil sketch, if a musical piece heard only on the piano appears before us clothed in the colors of the orchestra, my grandfather called me the [hawthorn] hedge at Tansonville, saying, “You who are so fond of hawthorns, look at this pink thorn, isn’t it lovely?””
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)