John Steinbeck, The Winter Of Our Discontent Quotes
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.
In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.
A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.
I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.