Love Quotes by John Steinbeck

“And all their love was thinned with money.”

— John Steinbeck

There is comfort in routine.

— John Steinbeck

It don't cost money to ask.

— John Steinbeck

Thou mayest rule over sin.

— John Steinbeck

People don't take trips . . . trips take people.

— John Steinbeck

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

— John Steinbeck

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

— John Steinbeck

The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

— John Steinbeck

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

— John Steinbeck

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

— John Steinbeck

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

— John Steinbeck

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

— John Steinbeck

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

— John Steinbeck

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love.…

— John Steinbeck

“When the fair gold morning of April stirred Mary Hawley awake, she turned over to her husband and saw him, little fingers…

— John Steinbeck

“My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if…

— John Steinbeck

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and…

— John Steinbeck

“I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe.…

— John Steinbeck

“Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they…

— John Steinbeck

“The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods. That was no accident. That, sir, was a profound…

— John Steinbeck

“Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren’t sure of yourself?”

— John Steinbeck

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of…

— John Steinbeck

“If you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t…

— John Steinbeck

“Abra looked at his sunny hair, tight-curled now, and at the eyes that seemed so near to tears, and she felt the…

— John Steinbeck

“This is not theology. I have no bent towards gods. But i have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human…

— John Steinbeck

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English…

— John Steinbeck

“You're not clever. You don't know what you want. You have no proper fierceness. You let other people walk over you. Sometimes…

— John Steinbeck

“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each…

— John Steinbeck

“Tiny emerged on deck some hours later, shaken but smiling. He said that what he had been considering love had turned out…

— John Steinbeck

“Mack and the boys, too, spinning in their orbits. They are the Virtues, the Graces, the Beauties of the hurried mangled craziness…

— John Steinbeck

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the…

— John Steinbeck

“Rose of Sharon Chapter 16 Me an’ Connie don’t want to live in the country no more. We got it all planned…

— John Steinbeck

“Spiritually the jugs may be graduated thus: Just below the shoulder of the first bottle, serious and concentrated conversation. Two inches farther…

— John Steinbeck

“First—if you are in love—that’s a good thing—that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it…

— John Steinbeck

“I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to…

— John Steinbeck

“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we…

— John Steinbeck

“Yes, I’ll be glad.” And she said suddenly, “There are some times, Joseph, when the love for people is strong and warm…

— John Steinbeck

“I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.”

— John Steinbeck

For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.

— John Steinbeck

“The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods.”

— John Steinbeck