Men Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 4

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural…

— 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

A man without words is a man without thought.

— John Steinbeck

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a…

— John Steinbeck

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls…

— John Steinbeck

Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these…

— John Steinbeck

[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had…

— John Steinbeck

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really…

— John Steinbeck

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

— John Steinbeck

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print…

— John Steinbeck

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

— 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

Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak…

— John Steinbeck

“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and…

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

— John Steinbeck

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get…

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I…

— 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

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

— John Steinbeck