410 Quotes by E.B. White

Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend – to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

Maybe it’s all right,” she said. “But for the first time in my life I’m beginning to feel like an outsider in my own land.

I find the natural world as engaging and as innocent as it ever was. When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed, and I have no complaints.