E. B. White1899–1985The quotations of
E. B. White
American author
1899–1985
21 quotes, most often on Writing, Comedy and Life & Death.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
“Some Remarks on Humor,” preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941)- The New Yorker (3 July 1943); reprinted as “Democracy” in The Wild Flag (1946)
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
Charlotte’s Web, last lines- “The Old and the New,” The New Yorker (19 June 1937)
- A review of The Wave of the Future by Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Harpers Magazine (December 1940)
- Letter to M. Nadeau (30 March 1973)
No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
Here is New York (1949)- Letter to Shirley Wiley (30 March 1954), in The Letters of E. B. White (1989), p. 391
Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.
Letter to Mary Virginia Parrish (29 August 1969)- “Some Remarks on Humor,” preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941)
- “Coon Tree,” The New Yorker (14 June 1956), The Points of My Compass: Letters from the East, the West, the North, the South (1962); reprinted in Essays of E.B. White (1977)
I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.
Letter to the New York Herald Tribune (29 November 1947)
