1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.

This was a fatally flawed environmental impact analysis.

Seniors are scared to death with the inordinate amount of information, and they are intimidated by the penalty if they don't make a choice by May 15.

It's a building I would love to go to, but I don't have dementia.

The best writing is rewriting.

Progress is running far behind Iraqi expectations in virtually every area. In their view, most Iraqis are not seeing 'amazing progress.' All too many of them live in constant danger, with less electricity in many areas than under Saddam Hussein.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.