Quotes by : E.B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.....

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be....

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.....

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time.

Tonight I heard Louis's horn. My father heard it, too. The wind was right, and I could hear the notes....

I have seldom met an individual of literary tastes or propensities in whom the writing of love was not....

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. "The Distant Music....

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness,....