# Of Mice and Men

- Author: [John Steinbeck](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck.md)
- Quotes: 13
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men

## Quotes

> You watch your place, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy, it ain't even funny.

p. 80 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/you-watch-your.md)

> Well, God knows he don't need any brains to buck barley bags. But don't you try to put nothing over, Milton. I got my eye on you.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/well-god-knows.md)

> His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/his-ear-heard.md)

> 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.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/guy-dont-need.md)

> I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

p. 75 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/i-seen-too.md)

> What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways. We don’t want no pants rabbits.

p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/what-the-hell.md)

> You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.

p. 101 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/you-aint-worth.md)

> "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."

p. 29 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/well-that-gloves.md)

> A powerful, big-stomached man came into the bunkhouse.

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/a-powerful-big-stomached.md)

> They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. 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.

p. 74 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/they-come-an-they.md)

> We could live offa the fatta the lan’.

p. 57 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/we-could-live.md)

> Ain't many guys travel around together. I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/aint-many-guys.md)

> Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/books-aint-no-good.md)