pencil quotes

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  'On Lying In Bed'.

Her pencil drew whate'er her soul designed, And oft thehappydraft surpassed the image in her mind.

-John Dryden
  'To the Pious Memory of the  AccomplishedYoung Lady Mrs  Anne Killigrew'.

Every author's fairy godmother should provide him not only with a pen but also with a blue pencil.

- F(rank) L(awrence) Lucas
  Style, introduction.

With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'The Revolt of Islam'.

'Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Gardener's Daughter', l.24^8.