--- title: "13 Littles Quotes By E. B. White" description: "13 Littles quotes by E. B. White. Plus more from E. B. White and more Littles sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd3/e-b-white-1448_adventure_i-have-occasionally-had-the-exquisite-th_1576163.png" --- > [I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-have-occasionally-had-the-exquisite-thrill-of-putting-my-finger-on/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd3/e-b-white-1448_adventure_i-have-occasionally-had-the-exquisite-th_1576163.png) > [By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/by-helping-you-perhaps-i-was-trying-to-lift-up-my-life-a-trifle/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e96/e-b-white-1448_charlotte-s-web_by-helping-you-perhaps-i-was-trying-to-l_2174510.png) > [A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-poet-s-pleasure-is-to-withhold-a-little-of-his-meaning-to-intensify/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1a/e-b-white-1448_beauty_a-poet-s-pleasure-is-to-withhold-a-littl_2213185.png) > [There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/there-is-a-period-near-the-beginning-of-every-man-s-life-when-he-has/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/453/e-b-white-1448_dream_there-is-a-period-near-the-beginning-of_920445.png) > [Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/even-now-with-a-thousand-little-voyages-notched-in-my-belt-i-still/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c2/e-b-white-1448_belts_even-now-with-a-thousand-little-voyages_1594533.png) > [Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/necessity-first-mothered-invention-now-invention-has-little-ones-of/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/e-b-white-1448_architect_necessity-first-mothered-invention-now-i_179828.png) > [I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-am-often-mad-but-i-would-hate-to-be-nothing-but-mad-and-i-think-i/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca7/e-b-white-1448_accepting_i-am-often-mad-but-i-would-hate-to-be-no_303926.png) > [A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-poet-dares-to-be-just-so-clear-and-no-clearer-he-approaches-lucid/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/e-b-white-1448_approach_a-poet-dares-to-be-just-so-clear-and-no_1758547.png) > [You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/you-have-been-my-friend-that-in-itself-is-a-tremendous-thing-i-wove/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e92/e-b-white-1448_birth_you-have-been-my-friend-that-in-itself-i_283372.jpg) > [In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/in-a-sense-the-world-dies-every-time-a-writer-dies-because-if-he-is/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/387/e-b-white-1448_clusters_in-a-sense-the-world-dies-every-time-a-w_253107.jpg) > [Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/americans-are-willing-to-go-to-enormous-trouble-and-expense-defending/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/e-b-white-1448_adults_americans-are-willing-to-go-to-enormous_744016.jpg) > [From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/from-morning-till-night-sounds-drift-from-the-kitchen-most-of-them/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b3/e-b-white-1448_brain_from-morning-till-night-sounds-drift-fro_1248708.png) > [I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-discovered-a-long-time-ago-that-writing-of-the-small-things-of-the/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/e-b-white-1448_accomplish_i-discovered-a-long-time-ago-that-writin_1535675.jpg) ## Other authors on Littles ## More by E. B. White > [Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/writing-is-an-act-of-faith-not-a-trick-of-grammar/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/to-hear-in-the-short-space-of-one-week-a-scottish-terrier-booed-by-an/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-sea-answers-all-questions-and-always-in-the-same-way-for-when-you/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/new-york-blends-the-gift-of-privacy-with-the-excitement-of/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-terror-of-the-atom-age-is-not-the-violence-of-the-new-power-but/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/when-my-wife-s-aunt-caroline-was-in-her-nineties-she-lived-with-us/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/sailors-have-an-expression-about-the-weather-they-say-the-weather-is/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/anyone-who-writes-down-to-children-is-simply-wasting-his-time-you/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-writer-should-concern-himself-with-whatever-absorbs-his-fancy-stirs/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/every-morning-i-awake-torn-between-a-desire-to-save-the-world-and-an/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-seldom-went-to-bed-before-two-or-three-o-clock-in-the-morning-on/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/necessity-first-mothered-invention-now-invention-has-little-ones-of/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-bonus-is-really-one-of-the-great-give-aways-in-business/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/there-s-no-limit-to-how-complicated-things-can-get-on-account-of-one/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-critic-leaves-at-curtain-fall-to-find-in-starting-to-review-it-he/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/littles/e-b-white/#itemlist", "name": "13 Littles Quotes By E. B. 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