The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. — E. B. White Belonging Copy Share Image
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. — E. B. White Agreement Copy Share Image
Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. — E. B. White Children Copy Share Image
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train… — E. B. White Fitness Copy Share Image
Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune. — E. B. White Dark Copy Share Image
Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you… — E. B. White Book Copy Share Image
It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its… — E. B. White Books Copy Share Image
Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest… — E. B. White Adults Copy Share Image
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the… — E. B. White Adventure Copy Share Image
All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only… — E. B. White Accuracy Copy Share Image
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the… — E. B. White Books Copy Share Image
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper… — E. B. White Age Copy Share Image
The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the… — E. B. White Business Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. — E. B. White Childhood Copy Share Image
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes… — E. B. White Desire Copy Share Image
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but… — E. B. White Beauty Copy Share Image
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair. — E. B. White Chance Copy Share Image
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. — E. B. White Friend Copy Share Image
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. — E. B. White Anatomy Copy Share Image
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. — E. B. White Farmer Copy Share Image
Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one. — E. B. White Clarity Copy Share Image
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get… — E. B. White Advice Copy Share Image
Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions. — E. B. White Business Copy Share Image
“When we slid the body into the grave, we both were shaken to the core. The loss we felt was not the… — E. B. White Death Copy Share Image
If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means "sickening to contemplate"; the second means "sick at the stomach." Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous,"… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
