Edward Bulwer-Lytton a-t-il vraiment dit « The pen is mightier than the sword » ?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton a-t-il vraiment dit « The pen is mightier than the sword » ?

Trouvé mot pour mot. Les mots existent, mais pas là où on les place d’habitude. La correspondance la plus ancienne de notre corpus vient d’une autre source, ci-dessous.

_Examples_: He is a slave to the _cup_. Strike for your _altars_ and your _fires_. The _kettle boils,_ He rose and addressed the _chair_. The _palace_ should not scorn the _cottage_. The watched _pot_ never boils. The red _coats_ turned and fled. _Iron_ bailed and _lead_ rained upon the enemy. The _pen_ is mightier than the _sword_.
The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric — Sherwin Cody, CHAPTER II. · ¶630 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #19719 · source

The pen is mightier than the sword.--BULWER LYTTON: _Richelieu, act ii. sc. 2._
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature — John Bartlett, ¶5241 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #27889 · source

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.[606-1]
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature — John Bartlett, Chapter of accidents.[353-2] · ¶14994 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #27889 · source

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