410 Quotes by E.B. White

Democracy is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles.

From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting.... On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

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

The branch had unquestionably been whacked from a tree in the woods behind our son's house in Maine and had made the long trip south. It wore the look and carried the smell of authenticity.

At this season the sparrows are particularly conspicuous because they are in love—and love addles any creature and makes him noisy.

I would really rather feel bad in Maine than good anywhere else.

You can certainly learn to spell 'moccasin' while driving into Maine, and there is often little else to do, except steer and avoid death.

I think of those first five years in Maine as the time when this happened to me... I was suddenly seeing, feeling, and listening as a child sees, feels, and listens.

I was a flop as a daily reporter. Every piece had to be a masterpiece—and before you knew it, Tuesday was Wednesday.