World Quotes by John Steinbeck

New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.

— John Steinbeck

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

— John Steinbeck

There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

— John Steinbeck

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

— John Steinbeck

“Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.”

— John Steinbeck

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

— John Steinbeck

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by…

— 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

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't…

— John Steinbeck

It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness:…

— John Steinbeck

“But some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their…

— John Steinbeck

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to…

— John Steinbeck

They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften…

— John Steinbeck

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It…

— John Steinbeck

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in…

— 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

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 kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good…

— 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

I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents… The face and body may be perfect, but if a…

— John Steinbeck

For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was…

— John Steinbeck

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these…

— John Steinbeck

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in…

— John Steinbeck

It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of…

— 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

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always…

— 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

He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and…

— John Steinbeck

Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

— John Steinbeck

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

— John Steinbeck

“...so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers...

— John Steinbeck

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world

— John Steinbeck

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our…

— John Steinbeck

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to…

— John Steinbeck