E.B. White Quotes

I find the natural world as engaging and as innocent as it ever was. When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed, and I have no complaints.

hope my country will never become an uncomfortable place for the unbeliever, as it could easily become if prayer was made one of the requirements of the accredited citizen.

I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writers. Charlotte was both.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

All dwellers in cities must live with the stubborn fact of annihilation; in New York the fact is somewhat more concentrated because of the concentration of the city itself, and because, of all targets, New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.

It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.

"I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.

Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down. Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.