Of Mice and Men Quotes

“The shade climbed up the hills towards the top”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Ja nemam nikoga svoga, reče George. Viđao sam momke što sami lutaju po posjedima. Ne valja to. Nemaju nikakva veselja. Nakon duljeg vremena postaju zli. Neprestano traže gdje bi se pobili.”
― Steinbeck John, Of Mice and Men

“J'ai vu des centaines d'hommes passer sur les routes et dans les ranches, avec leur balluchon sur le dos et les mêmes bobards dans la tête. J'en ai vu des centaines. Ils viennent, et, le travail fini, ils s'en vont ; et chacun d'eux a son petit lopin de terre dans la tête. Mais y en a pas un qu'est foutu de le trouver. C'est comme le paradis. Tout le monde veut un petit bout de terrain. Je lis des tas de livres ici. Personne n'va jamais au ciel, et personne n'arrive jamais à avoir de la terre. C'est tout dans leur tête. Ils passent leur temps à en parler, mais c'est tout dans leur tête.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defined: small, strong hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose. Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“God, you’re a lot of trouble,” said George. “I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Slim looked through George and beyond him. “Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“He ain’t no cuckoo,” said George. “He’s dumb as hell, but he ain’t crazy. An’ I ain’t so bright neither, or I wouldn’t be buckin’ barley for my fifty and found. If I was bright, if I was even a little bit smart, I’d have my own little place, an’ I’d be bringin’ in my own crops, ’stead of doin’ all the work and not getting what comes up outta the ground.”
― 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

“They fell into a silence. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true. George said reverently, “Jesus Christ! I bet we could swing her.” His eyes were full of wonder. “I bet we could swing her,” he repeated softly.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“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 then they go inta town and blow their 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

“I am afraid. Among other things I feel that I have put some things over. That the little success of mine is cheating. I don’t seem to feel that any of it is any good. All cheating.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Slim smiled wryly. He knelt down beside Curley. “You got your senses in hand enough to listen?” he asked. Curley nodded.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Plays are hard to read so this will make both a novel and play as it stands.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“the damp flats are covered with the night tracks of ’coons, and with the spread pads of dogs from the ranches, and with the split-wedge tracks of deer that come to drink in the dark.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Both were dressed in denim trousers and in denim coats with brass buttons. Both wore black, shapeless hats and both carried tight blanket rolls slung over their shoulders. The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defined: small, strong hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose. Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“He pointed with his right arm, and out of the sleeve came a round stick-like wrist, but no hand.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“A little stocky man stood in the open doorway. He wore blue jean trousers, a flannel shirt, a black, unbuttoned vest and a black coat. His thumbs were stuck in his belt, on each side of a square steel buckle. On his head was a soiled brown Stetson hat, and he wore high-heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a laboring man.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“The swamper warmed to his gossip. “You seen that glove on his left hand?” “Yeah. I seen it.” “Well, that glove’s fulla vaseline.” “Vaseline? What the hell for?” “Well, I tell ya what—Curley says he’s keepin’ that hand soft for his wife.” George studied the cards absorbedly. “That’s a dirty thing to tell around,” he said.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“A girl was standing there looking in. She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“This was Slim, the jerkline skinner. His hatchet face was ageless. He might have been thirty-five or fifty. His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. His hands, large and lean, were as delicate in their action as those of a temple dancer.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“I wisht somebody’d shoot me if I got old an’ a cripple.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“His body was bent over to the left by his crooked spine, and his eyes lay deep in his head, and because of their depth seemed to glitter with intensity. His lean face was lined with deep black wrinkles, and he had thin, pain-tightened lips which were lighter than his face.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“- C'est un brave type, dit Slim. Y a pas besoin d'avoir de la cervelle pour être un brave type. Des fois, il me semble que c'est même le contraire. Prends un type qu'est vraiment malin, c'est bien rare qu'il soit un bon gars.”
― John Steinbeck, Des souris et des hommes

“George sighed. “You give me a good whore house every time,” he said. “A guy can go in an’ get drunk and get ever’thing outta his system all at once, an’ no messes. And he knows how much it’s gonna set him back. These here jail baits is just set on the trigger of the hoosegow.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Non c’è bisogno di troppo cervello per essere un bravo ragazzo. Qualche volta mi pare anzi che il cervello faccia l’effetto opposto. Prendete uno che sia davvero in gamba, è difficile che sia una brava persona.”
― Steinbeck John, Of Mice and Men

“I can do anything when my will is clean and straight. Anything.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“That’s where your money’s goin’. Jesus, I seen it happen too many times. I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.” Candy cried, “Sure they all want”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Damn”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“house”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men