All John Steinbeck Quotes
- There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the… All
- In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there,… Business
- I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference. Chin
- Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful… Age
- Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional. Another Form
- When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet,… Begins
- The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you. Anybody
- If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to… Able
- A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete. Appreciated
- If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick. Destroy
- Only mediocrity escapes criticism. Criticism
- Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Abandon
- I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against… Apathy
- Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back. Best
- People do not want advice - they want corroboration. Advice
- In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from… Alike
- The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. American
- We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good… Afraid
- A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory Dying
- You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. Ceased
- I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. It's scary to think about. Point of reference again. When two… All
- Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way. Askin
- What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for… Appreciate
- A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the… All
- Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. All