1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.

People don't take trips, trips take people.

All the world's great have been little boys who wanted the moon.

A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going.

Across the Colorado River from the Needles, the dark and jagged ramparts of Arizona stood up against the sky, and behind them the huge tilted plain rising toward the backbone of the continent again.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assail one.