--- title: "13 Should Quotes By E. B. White" description: "13 Should quotes by E. B. White. Plus more from E. B. White and more Should sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47b/e-b-white-1448_believe_i-believe-in-dreams-people-should-have-f_471051.png" --- > [I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-believe-in-dreams-people-should-have-faith-in-the-songs-poets-sing/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47b/e-b-white-1448_believe_i-believe-in-dreams-people-should-have-f_471051.png) > [A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-writer-should-tend-to-lift-people-up-not-lower-them-down/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbc/e-b-white-1448_lift_a-writer-should-tend-to-lift-people-up-n_766881.png) > [A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-schoolchild-should-be-taught-grammar-for-the-same-reason-that-a-2/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afb/e-b-white-1448_anatomy_a-schoolchild-should-be-taught-grammar-f_2737759.png) > [We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/we-should-all-do-what-in-the-long-run-gives-us-joy-even-if-it-is-only/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f00/e-b-white-1448_grapes_we-should-all-do-what-in-the-long-run-gi_629959.png) > [Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/diplomacy-is-the-lowest-form-of-politeness-because-it-misquotes-the/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd5/e-b-white-1448_courtesy_diplomacy-is-the-lowest-form-of-politene_2080077.png) > [It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/it-can-destroy-an-individual-or-it-can-fulfill-him-depending-a-good/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b44/e-b-white-1448_deals_it-can-destroy-an-individual-or-it-can-f_826832.png) > [Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/deathlessness-should-be-arrived-at-in-a-haphazard-fashion-loving-fame/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c12/e-b-white-1448_bogs_deathlessness-should-be-arrived-at-in-a_468283.png) > [It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/it-seemed-to-me-that-i-should-have-a-desk-even-though-i-had-no-real/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d6/e-b-white-1448_desk_it-seemed-to-me-that-i-should-have-a-des_542092.jpg) > [I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-am-a-member-of-a-party-of-one-and-i-live-in-an-age-of-fear-nothing/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/e-b-white-1448_age_i-am-a-member-of-a-party-of-one-and-i-li_2210451.png) > [A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/966/e-b-white-1448_accurate_a-writer-should-concern-himself-with-wha_169848.png) > [The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-beginner-should-approach-style-warily-realizing-that-it-is/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1b/e-b-white-1448_adornment_the-beginner-should-approach-style-waril_1276481.jpg) > [Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/television-hangs-on-the-questionable-theory-that-whatever-happens/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/210/e-b-white-1448_able_television-hangs-on-the-questionable-the_352003.jpg) > [I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-have-just-been-refining-the-room-in-which-i-sit-yet-i-sometimes/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/e-b-white-1448_chairs_i-have-just-been-refining-the-room-in-wh_768868.png) ## Other authors on Should ## 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/should/e-b-white/#itemlist", "name": "13 Should Quotes By E. B. White", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I believe in dreams. 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