Men Quotes by John Steinbeck

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a…

— John Steinbeck

“The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains…

— John Steinbeck

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of…

— John Steinbeck

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

— John Steinbeck

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind…

— John Steinbeck

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how…

— John Steinbeck

“Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think…

— John Steinbeck

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must…

— John Steinbeck

“Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.”

— john steinbeck

If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

— John Steinbeck

After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he…

— John Steinbeck

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men…

— John Steinbeck

“Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.”

— John Steinbeck

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

— John Steinbeck

“Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains…

— John Steinbeck

Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in…

— John Steinbeck

Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

— John Steinbeck

I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities…

— John Steinbeck

This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national,…

— John Steinbeck

Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be…

— John Steinbeck

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions…

— John Steinbeck

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or…

— John Steinbeck

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

— John Steinbeck

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much…

— John Steinbeck

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a…

— John Steinbeck