Charlotte's Web Quotes

• Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

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  E. B. White

  Children   True Friend   Life Changing  

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

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  Joe Manganiello

  Photography   Thinking   Males  

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• I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

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  E. B. White

  Clever   Like Her   New Friends  

  E. B. White (2015). “Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little”, p.27, HarperCollins UK

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• As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'

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  Mohsin Hamid

  Children   Book   Wind  

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• What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

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  E. B. White

  Mean   Thinking   Would Be  

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• Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

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  Jonas Salk

  Pregnancy   Magic   Way  

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• To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

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  Louise Penny

  Children   Honest   Wanted  

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• Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

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  E. B. White

  Friendship   Change   Wisdom  

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.117, Cornell University Press

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• You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

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  E. B. White

  Life   Heaven   Trying  

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• Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

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  E. B. White

  Believe   People   Trust Me  

  "Fictional character: Charlotte". "Charlotte's Web", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect.

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  E. B. White

  Pigs   Ideas   Wish  

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• Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.

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  E. B. White

  Wanted Love   Want   Wanted  

  White, E. B. White, Garth Williams (2010). “Charlotte's Web”, Puffin Books

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

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  E. B. White

  Death   Littles   Birth  

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.117, Cornell University Press

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• If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

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  E. B. White

  Smart   Men   People  

  1952 Charlotte. Charlotte's Web, ch.10.

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• It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

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  E. B. White

  Animal   Attention   Charlotte's Web  

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• By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

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  E. B. White

  Inspiring   Heaven   Trying  

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.117, Cornell University Press

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• Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Ally’s model book. “I like the family that comes together in the barn,” Ally said without hesitation. “I like that they aren’t all the same thing; one is human and one’s a spider and one’s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love.

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  Meg Waite Clayton

  Morning   Book   Thinking  

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• What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

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  Gabrielle Zevin

  Reading   Book   Character  

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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  E. B. White

  Friendship   True Friend   Charlotte's Web  

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

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  Louis Sachar

  Teacher   Children   Book  

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