E. B. White Quotes

I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is!

I’m not terrific, Charlotte. I’m just about average for a pig.

I don’t understand it, and I don’t like what I don’t understand.

Friendship is one of the most satisfying things in the world.

Every day Wilbur would stand and look at the torn, empty web, and a lump would come to his throat. No one had ever had such a friend – so affectionate, so loyal, and so skillful.

Ever since the spider had befriended him, he had done his best to live up to his reputation. When Charlotte’s web said SOME PIG, Wilbur had tried hard to look like some pig. When Charlotte’s web said TERRIFIC, Wilbur had tried to look terrific. And now that the web said RADIANT, he did everything possible to make himself glow.

Control myself? This is a matter of life and death, and you talk about controlling myself.

Children pay better attention than grownups.

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

Alone? My best friends are in the barn cellar. It is a very sociable place. Not at all lonely.

After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die.

A spider’s web is stronger than it looks. Although it is made of thin, delicate strands, the web is not easily broken.