All Elwyn Brooks White Quotes
- English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. Across
- The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. Anti War
- All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather… All
- When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep… Beyond
- In every queen there's a touch of floozy. Every Queen
- In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit… Attention
- After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. All
- A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open. Bias
- What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of… Absolutely
- As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though… All
- Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. Beauty
- Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,'… All
- This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of… Abc
- The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness,… Compunction
- Writing is both mask and unveiling. Both
- There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city… Accepting
- A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper. Conditions
- Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society… All
- I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into… Accommodated
- All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world. All