All Elwyn Brooks White Quotes
- Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that… Any
- The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in… Ahead
- Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it. Cross
- I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else Anywhere
- It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people. Deeply
- There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is… Creation
- Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be… Bed
- The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and… Agreement
- I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow. Always Humbled
- When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an… Adventure
- It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention. Animal
- If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs. Bug
- Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love. Food
- But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination. Imagination
- A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all… Accompaniment
- The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought… Becomes
- 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… All
- I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand. Funny
- Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will. Almost Always
- You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing. Been