English Pen

Famous quotes containing the words english and/or pen:

“He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.”
—Sixteenth-century English proverb.

“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)