Qui plume a, guerre a.
Letter to Jeanne-Grâce Bosc du Bouchet, comtesse d'Argental (4 October 1748)
This remark also appears in a letter to Marie-Louise Denis (22 May 1752): To hold a pen is to be at war. This world is one vast temple consecrated to discord [Qui plume a, guerre a. Ce monde est un vaste temple dédié à la discorde].
Citas
Qui plume a, guerre a.
“Hold your pen and spare your voice.”
“My pen in this, my sword in that hand hold.”
Numa mão sempre a espada, e noutra a pena.
Stanza 79, line 8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto VII
“Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.”
“If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.”
Said to Isaac Glikman, 1936; cited from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 92.
Bai Chongxi cited in " China’s Muslim General http://www.shanghai1937.com/chinas-muslim-general" on Shanghai 1937, 26 February 2013
“We will not be penned in even a giant's pen. We fly!”
Captain Roadstrum, Ch. 2
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: There are skies we have not seen yet! There are whole realms still unvisited by us. We will not be penned in even a giant's pen. We fly!
“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”
“Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.”
Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw
