All John Steinbeck Quotes
- Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him. Dog
- Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled. Alone
- The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and… Alive
- Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house… Art
- Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can… Air
- American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we… All
- The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite. Completely
- There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy Appetite
- We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way. Arms
- And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely. Hands
- The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought… Act
- Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it… Call
- Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'. Fatta
- I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing… All
- So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes… Afternoon
- I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical Believed
- This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this,… Beginning
- And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her… Assured
- The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a… Ambassadors
- For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad,… Bad
- Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow,… Agony
- The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental. All
- Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile. All
- Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk. Best
- The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever. Beautiful