Source: The Mouse that Roared, p. 5.
“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”
“The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.”
“Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
Richelieu (1839)
“A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword?”
Page 306
Finnegans Wake (1939)
Context: A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? A Successful Career in the Civil Service.
Kenneth Williams Acid Drops (London: Orion, [1980] 1999) p. xvi.
“The pen worse than the sword.”
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet.
Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“There is more done with pens than with swords.”
This is very similar in theme to "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
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