All John Steinbeck Quotes
- Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers. Dancer
- A good writer always works at the impossible. Always Works
- Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on… Batter
- We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of… All
- I know this... a man got to do what he got to do. Funny
- Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected… Building
- Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who… Another Chance
- And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. Collected
- The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he… Contented
- The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making… Generals
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and… All
- There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil… Changes
- A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was… Boy
- I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood… Begin
- The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little… Bewildered
- It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good. Doe
- A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody. Anybody
- If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Anyone
- Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also. Feel
- The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it. Beautiful
- Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope. Greatest
- There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have… Bust
- The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant American
- One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive. Alive
- Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a… California