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Richelieu

Richelieu

Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy is an 1839 historical play by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It portrays the life of the Seventeenth Century French statesmen Cardinal Richelieu.


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“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)

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“Take away the sword;
States can be saved without it.”

Act iii, Scene i.
Richelieu (1839)

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“You speak
As one who fed on poetry.”

Act i, Scene vi.
Richelieu (1839)

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“Ambition has no risk.”

Act iii, Scene i.
Richelieu (1839)

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“Love hath no need of words.”

Act I, Scene II
Richelieu (1839)

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