Careful Words

ink (n.)

ink (v.)

ink (adj.)

  Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,

Falling like dew upon a thought, produces

That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 88.

  As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, That that is, is.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Twelfth Night. Act iv. Sc. 2.