Discover the best quotes and phrases from the book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck.
"His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus’ som’thin’ that was his. Som’thin’ he could live on and there couldn’t nobody throw him off of it."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. KNOWING A MAN WELL NEVER LEADS TO HATE and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. TRY TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER!"
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
GEORGE QUOTES Of Mice And Men
"We'd belong there... we'd have our own place where we belonged."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Because I got you an'—" ... "An' I got you. We got each other,"
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
'He said woodenly, "if I was alone I could live so easily."'
'For a moment he was business like. "Look acrost the river, Lennie, an' I'll tell you so you can almost see it."'
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Yeah,” said George. “I’ll come. But listen, Curley. The poor bastard’s nuts. Don’t shoot ‘im. He di’n’t know what he was doin’."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em. "
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Yeah,” said George. “I’ll come. But listen, Curley. The poor bastard’s nuts. Don’t shoot ‘im. He di’n’t know what he was doin’."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
Of Mice And Men Lennie Quotes
"I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Lennie smiled helplessly in an attempt to make friends. (At Crooks)"
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Lennie leaned eagerly towards him, "Le's go, George. Le's get outta here. It's mean here.""
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"We could live offa the fatta the lan'."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Lennie cried out suddenly—"I don' like this place, George. This ain't no good place. I wanna get outa here.""
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George. "
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now."
"Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"If you don' want me I can go off in the hills an' find a cave. "
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
Crooks Quotes Of Mice And Men
"Crooks avoided the whole subject now. “Maybe you guys better go,” he said. “I ain’t sure I want you in here no more. A colored man got to have some rights even if he don’t like ’em."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"The boss gives him hell when he's mad"
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Don't come in a place where you're not wanted"
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Crooks stood up from his bunk and faced her. "I had enough," he said coldly. "You got no rights comin' in a colored man's room. You got no rights messing around in here at all. Now you jus' get out, an' get out quick. If you don't, I'm gonna ast the boss not to ever let you come in the barn no more."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"Crooks stared helplessly at her, and then he sat down on his bunk and drew into himself"
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"She turned on him in scorn. "Listen, Nigger," she said. "You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?"
Crooks stared helplessly at her, and then he sat down on his bunk and drew into himself.
She closed on him. "You know what I could do?"
Crooks seemed to grow smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall. "Yes, ma'am."
"Well, you keep your place then, Nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny."
GCrooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego--nothing to arouse either like or dislike. He said, "Yes, ma'am," and his voice was toneless.
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
Of Mice And Men Loneliness Quotes
"God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy"
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
"I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
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