All Elwyn Brooks White Quotes
- Home was quite a place when people stayed there. Happiness
- We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever… Bed
- Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself. Care
- Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make… Bad
- When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him. Adversity
- If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. Anything Perhaps
- The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self. Communication
- 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… All
- No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing. Attitude
- Be obscure clearly. Clearly
- An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service. Fact
- Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot. Camelot
- You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing... Been
- Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one Cracked
- I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting… Bright
- As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not… Bad
- Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in car. Car
- The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty wench,… Beginning
- Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to… Adventure
- Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog few people are interested, and the frog dies. Analysing