1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson

It don't cost money to ask.

The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.

The land is so much more than its analysis.