410 Quotes by E.B. White

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

Once you begin watching spiders, you haven’t time for much else.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgement, and education. Sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

If a man is foolish enough to reveal his thoughts, the least he can do is conceal his whereabouts.

A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first ... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.