Men Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 3

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

— John Steinbeck

I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

— John Steinbeck

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything…

— John Steinbeck

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the…

— John Steinbeck

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under…

— John Steinbeck

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love…

— John Steinbeck

Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin'…

— John Steinbeck

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or…

— John Steinbeck

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if…

— John Steinbeck

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

— John Steinbeck

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The…

— John Steinbeck

To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget…

— John Steinbeck

But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his…

— 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

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that…

— John Steinbeck

Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen…

— John Steinbeck

When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and…

— John Steinbeck

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that…

— 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

“I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and…

— John Steinbeck

What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist…

— John Steinbeck

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life…

— John Steinbeck

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing…

— John Steinbeck

A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.…

— John Steinbeck

Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're…

— 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

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to…

— John Steinbeck

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality…

— John Steinbeck

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

— John Steinbeck

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no…

— John Steinbeck

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend…

— John Steinbeck

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our…

— John Steinbeck

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well…

— John Steinbeck

But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life…

— John Steinbeck

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must…

— John Steinbeck

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

— John Steinbeck

“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art…

— 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