Create Yours

Top 300 E.B. White Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 6 of 7

E.B. White Quote: “I’m not fooled any more by an ill wind and a light that fails.”

251. “I’m not fooled any more by an ill wind and a light that fails.”

E.B. White Quote: “The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.”

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

E.B. White Quote: “The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.”

253. “The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.”

E.B. White Quote: “Once in everyone’s life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.”

254. “Once in everyone’s life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.”

E.B. White Quote: “Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?”

255. “Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?”

E.B. White Quote: “People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.”

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

E.B. White Quote: “Some of the published news was distorted, but distortion is inherent in partisan journalism, the same as it is in political rallies.”

257. “Some of the published news was distorted, but distortion is inherent in partisan journalism, the same as it is in political rallies.”

E.B. White Quote: “Do not be afraid to seize whatever you have written and cut it to ribbons; it can always be restored to its original condition in the morning... remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.”

258. “Do not be afraid to seize whatever you have written and cut it to ribbons; it can always be restored to its original condition in the morning... remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.”

E.B. White Quote: “Any husband who loses interest in the drama of family life, as it unfolds, isn’t worth his salt.”

259. “Any husband who loses interest in the drama of family life, as it unfolds, isn’t worth his salt.”

E.B. White Quote: “Yet in tearing us apart he somehow held us together. In obstructing, he strengthened us. In criticizing, he informed. In his rich, aromatic heresy, he nourished our faith. He was also a plain damned nuisance, I must not forget that.”

260. “Yet in tearing us apart he somehow held us together. In obstructing, he strengthened us. In criticizing, he informed. In his rich, aromatic heresy, he nourished our faith. He was also a plain damned nuisance, I must not forget that.”

E.B. White Quote: “A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.”

261. “A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.”

E.B. White Quote: “Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.”

262. “Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.”

E.B. White Quote: “Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.”

263. “Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.”

E.B. White Quote: “There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song – the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.”

264. “There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song – the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.”

E.B. White Quote: “A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable – or at least deserving of support.”

265. “A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable – or at least deserving of support.”

E.B. White Quote: “And the fan takes over again, and the heat and the relaxed air and the memory of so many good little dinners in so many good little illegal places, with the theme of love, the sound of ventilation, the brief medicinal illusion of gin.”

266. “And the fan takes over again, and the heat and the relaxed air and the memory of so many good little dinners in so many good little illegal places, with the theme of love, the sound of ventilation, the brief medicinal illusion of gin.”

E.B. White Quote: “A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer’s enthusiasm.”

267. “A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer’s enthusiasm.”

E.B. White Quote: “It was a delicious meal – skim milk, wheat middlings, leftover pancakes, half a doughnut, the rind of a summer squash, two pieces of stale toast, a third of a gingersnap, a fish tail, one orange peel, several noodles from a noodle soup, the scum off a cup of cocoa, an ancient jelly roll, a strip of paper from the lining of the garbage pail, and a spoonful of raspberry jello.”

268. “It was a delicious meal – skim milk, wheat middlings, leftover pancakes, half a doughnut, the rind of a summer squash, two pieces of stale toast, a third of a gingersnap, a fish tail, one orange peel, several noodles from a noodle soup, the scum off a cup of cocoa, an ancient jelly roll, a strip of paper from the lining of the garbage pail, and a spoonful of raspberry jello.”

E.B. White Quote: “In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.”

269. “In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.”

E.B. White Quote: “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.”

270. “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.”

E.B. White Quote: “As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.”

271. “As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.”

E.B. White Quote: “Every night, before he turned in, he would write in the book. He wrote about things he had done, things he had seen, and thoughts he had had. Sometimes he drew a picture. He always ended by asking himself a question so he would have something to think about while falling asleep.”

272. “Every night, before he turned in, he would write in the book. He wrote about things he had done, things he had seen, and thoughts he had had. Sometimes he drew a picture. He always ended by asking himself a question so he would have something to think about while falling asleep.”

E.B. White Quote: “I got a letter from a lightning rod company this morning trying to out the fear of God in me, but with small success. Lightning seems to have lost its menace. Compared to what is going on on earth today, heaven’s firebrands are penny fireworks with wet fuses.”

273. “I got a letter from a lightning rod company this morning trying to out the fear of God in me, but with small success. Lightning seems to have lost its menace. Compared to what is going on on earth today, heaven’s firebrands are penny fireworks with wet fuses.”

E.B. White Quote: “Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.”

274. “Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.”

E.B. White Quote: “I located America thirty-one years ago in a Model T Ford and planted my flag. I’ve tried a couple of times since to find it again, riding in faster cars and on better roads, but America is the sort of place that is discovered only once by any one man.”

275. “I located America thirty-one years ago in a Model T Ford and planted my flag. I’ve tried a couple of times since to find it again, riding in faster cars and on better roads, but America is the sort of place that is discovered only once by any one man.”

E.B. White Quote: “This week, many will be reminded that no explosion of atoms generates so hopeful a light as the reflection of a star, seen appreciatively in a pasture pond.”

276. “This week, many will be reminded that no explosion of atoms generates so hopeful a light as the reflection of a star, seen appreciatively in a pasture pond.”

E.B. White Quote: “They just keep trotting back and forth across the bridge thinking there is something better on the other side. If they’d hang head-down at the top of the thing and wait quietly, maybe something good would come along.”

277. “They just keep trotting back and forth across the bridge thinking there is something better on the other side. If they’d hang head-down at the top of the thing and wait quietly, maybe something good would come along.”

E.B. White Quote: “When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.”

278. “When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.”

E.B. White Quote: “Its not often a true friend comes around.”

279. “Its not often a true friend comes around.”

E.B. White Quote: “The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.”

280. “The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.”

E.B. White Quote: “I seldom went to bed before two or three o’clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.”

281. “I seldom went to bed before two or three o’clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.”

E.B. White Quote: “Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.”

282. “Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.”

E.B. White Quote: “In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.”

283. “In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.”

E.B. White Quote: “Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.”

284. “Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.”

E.B. White Quote: “Both tend to speak of national security as though it were still capable of being dissociated from universal well-being; in fact, sometimes in these political addresses it sounds as though this nation, or any nation, through force of character or force of arms, could damn well rise above planetary considerations, as though we were greater than our environment, as though the national verve somehow transcended the natural world.”

285. “Both tend to speak of national security as though it were still capable of being dissociated from universal well-being; in fact, sometimes in these political addresses it sounds as though this nation, or any nation, through force of character or force of arms, could damn well rise above planetary considerations, as though we were greater than our environment, as though the national verve somehow transcended the natural world.”

E.B. White Quote: “The trouble today,” he wrote, “is that the Communist world understands unity but not liberty, while the free world understands liberty but not unity. Eventual victory may be won by the first of the two sides to achieve the synthesis of both liberty and unity.”

286. “The trouble today,” he wrote, “is that the Communist world understands unity but not liberty, while the free world understands liberty but not unity. Eventual victory may be won by the first of the two sides to achieve the synthesis of both liberty and unity.”

E.B. White Quote: “Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.”

287. “Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.”

E.B. White Quote: “Familiarity is the thing – the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. A farmer pauses in the doorway of his barn and he is wearing the right boots. A sheep stands under an apple tree and it wears the right look, and the tree is hung with puckered frozen fruit of the right color.”

288. “Familiarity is the thing – the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. A farmer pauses in the doorway of his barn and he is wearing the right boots. A sheep stands under an apple tree and it wears the right look, and the tree is hung with puckered frozen fruit of the right color.”

E.B. White Quote: “The grave in the woods is unmarked, but Fred can direct the mourner to it unerringly and with immense good will, and I know he and I shall often revisit it, singly and together, in seasons of reflection and despair, on flagless memorial days of our own choosing.”

289. “The grave in the woods is unmarked, but Fred can direct the mourner to it unerringly and with immense good will, and I know he and I shall often revisit it, singly and together, in seasons of reflection and despair, on flagless memorial days of our own choosing.”

E.B. White Quote: “I can still feel my old Ford nuzzling me at the curb, as though looking for an apple in my pocket.”

290. “I can still feel my old Ford nuzzling me at the curb, as though looking for an apple in my pocket.”

E.B. White Quote: “I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.”

291. “I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.”

E.B. White Quote: “There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.”

292. “There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.”

E.B. White Quote: “Everything gets taken over by big business, I don’t care what line you’re in.”

293. “Everything gets taken over by big business, I don’t care what line you’re in.”

E.B. White Quote: “Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

294. “Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

E.B. White Quote: “There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.”

295. “There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.”

E.B. White Quote: “Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.”

296. “Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.”

E.B. White Quote: “You goin’ to get your deer?“ I am asked by every man I meet – and they all wait for an answer. My deer-slaying program is a matter of considerable local concern, much to my surprise. It is plain that I now reside in a friendly community of killers, and that until I open fire myself they cannot call me brother.”

297. “You goin’ to get your deer?“ I am asked by every man I meet – and they all wait for an answer. My deer-slaying program is a matter of considerable local concern, much to my surprise. It is plain that I now reside in a friendly community of killers, and that until I open fire myself they cannot call me brother.”

E.B. White Quote: “I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.”

298. “I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.”

E.B. White Quote: “We teach our child many things I don’t believe in, and almost nothing I do believe in. We teach punctuality, particularly if the enforcement of it disturbs the peace. My father taught me, by example, that the greatest defeat in life was to miss a train. Only after many years did I learn that an escaping train carries away with it nothing vital to my health. Railroad trains are such magnificent objects we commonly mistake them for Destiny.”

299. “We teach our child many things I don’t believe in, and almost nothing I do believe in. We teach punctuality, particularly if the enforcement of it disturbs the peace. My father taught me, by example, that the greatest defeat in life was to miss a train. Only after many years did I learn that an escaping train carries away with it nothing vital to my health. Railroad trains are such magnificent objects we commonly mistake them for Destiny.”

E.B. White Quote: “Democrats do a lot of bellyaching about the press being preponderantly Republican, which it is. But they don’t do the one thing that could correct the situation: they don’t go into the publishing business. Democrats say they haven’t got that kind of money, but I’m afraid they haven’t got that kind of temperament or, perhaps, nerve.”

300. “Democrats do a lot of bellyaching about the press being preponderantly Republican, which it is. But they don’t do the one thing that could correct the situation: they don’t go into the publishing business. Democrats say they haven’t got that kind of money, but I’m afraid they haven’t got that kind of temperament or, perhaps, nerve.”

Enjoy Life Quotes

Enjoy Life Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NEXT

Enjoy Life Quotes

Enjoy Life Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 300 E.B. White Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.