Quotes by E. B. White

About E. B. White:

Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, an accomplishment repeated in earlier surveys.
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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

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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

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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.

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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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Author Bio

  • NameE. B. White
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJuly 11, 1899
  • DiedOctober 1, 1985
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Journalist; Novelist