Charlotte's Web Quotes:

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

- E. B. White

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Charlotte's Web

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.

- E. B. White

topic: Children, True Friend, Life Changing, Charlotte, Charlotte's Web

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.

- E. B. White

topic: Life, Heaven, Trying, Charlotte's Web, I Liked You

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.

- E. B. White

topic: Animal, Attention, Pay Attention, Charlotte's Web

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

- E. B. White

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

topic: Believe, People, Trust Me, Gullibility, Charlotte's Web

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.

- E. B. White

topic: Friendship, Change, Wisdom, Children's Books, Charlotte's Web

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

- E. B. White

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

topic: Smart, Men, People, Charlotte's Web

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?

- E. B. White

source: 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

topic: Clever, Like Her, New Friends, Charlotte, Charlotte's Web

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.

- E. B. White

topic: Mean, Thinking, Would Be, Little Bit, Charlotte's Web

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.

- E. B. White

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

topic: Wanted Love, Want, Wanted, Charlotte's Web

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.

- Joe Manganiello

topic: Sex, Thinking, Men, Objectification, Complete Happiness

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

- Louise Penny

topic: Children, Honest, Wanted, Charlotte, Charlotte's Web

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.

- Meg Waite Clayton

topic: Morning, Book, Thinking, Charlotte's Web, Blood Relation

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

- Jonas Salk

topic: Pregnancy, Magic, Way, Charlotte's Web, Pregnant Inspirational

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.

- E. B. White

topic: Pigs, Ideas, Wish, Charlotte's Web

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.'

- Mohsin Hamid

topic: Children, Book, Wind, Wind In The Willows, Charlotte's Web

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.

- Gabrielle Zevin

topic: Book, Reading, Character, Charlotte, Charlotte's Web

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.

- Louis Sachar

topic: Teacher, Children, Reading, Charlotte, Charlotte's Web