Heart Happy (cathy_edgett) wrote,
Heart Happy
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I found myself this morning thinking of the words "The pen is mightier than the sword," and realized I didn't know who first put those seven words together, so with a click of a key, Wikipedia is there.


"The pen is mightier than the sword" is a metonymic adage  coined by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839  for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy. The play was about Cardinal Richelieu, though in the author's words "license with dates and details... has been, though not unsparingly, indulged."[ The Cardinal's line in Act II, scene II, was more fully:

“

True, This! —
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! —
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —
States can be saved without it!

 ”


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