Men Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 2

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

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

— John Steinbeck

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

— John Steinbeck

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

— John Steinbeck

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

— John Steinbeck

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

— John Steinbeck

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

— John Steinbeck

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old…

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men…

— John Steinbeck

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question:…

— 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

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can…

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased:…

— 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

In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in…

— John Steinbeck

And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth…

— John Steinbeck

The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and…

— John Steinbeck

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a…

— 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

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

— 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

Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is…

— John Steinbeck

The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been…

— 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 design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is…

— John Steinbeck

Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only…

— John Steinbeck

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

— John Steinbeck

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

— John Steinbeck