Pen Names

Famous quotes containing the words pen and/or names:

“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)

“I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)