E.B. White Quotes

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

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

When you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together - just the two of you.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Chin up, chin up. Everyone loves a happy face. Wear it. Have it. It'll brighten the darkest place. Twinkle. Sparkle. Let a little sunshine in. You'll be on the right side looking on the bright side. Up with your chinny-chin-chin.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. . . This makes it hard to plan the day.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky.  We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.