E. B. White Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Faith, Writing

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

• Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.56, Cornell University Press

• Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

  E. B. White

  Birthday, Special, Age

• I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

  E. B. White

  Science, Views, Space

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.10, Harper Collins

• I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

  E. B. White

  Cat, Office, Firsts

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

• All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Weather, Skins

  E. B. White (2014). “Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976”, p.7, Harper Collins

• It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Men

  1942 One Man's Meat, 'One Man's Meat'.

• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Play, Saws

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

• A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Littles, Comedy

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