5 Quotes By E.B. White


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

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?
E.B. White on beauty

The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
E.B. White on future

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
E.B. White on happiness

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E.B. White on travel