410 Quotes by E.B. White

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

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, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

The world is a wonderful place when you’re young.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

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 an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village – the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!