# Quote — John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

> "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."

- Author: [John Steinbeck](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck.md)
- Book: [Of Mice and Men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men.md)
- Page: 29
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/of-mice-and-men/well-that-gloves

## More from this book

> 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)