Of Mice and Men Quotations
“Of Mice and Men” Quotes
Hopes and Dreams:
“An’ live off the fatta the lan’,” Lennie shouted. “An’ have rabbits”
“We’d jus’ live there. We’d belong there. We’d have our own place where we belonged and not sleep in no bunk house”
They fell into silence. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.
“Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody never gets no land. It just in their head.”
[Crooks] “why I’d come lend a hand”
“Well just forget it,” said crooks. “I didn’t mean it. Just foolin’. Wouldn’ want to go no place like that.”
George said softl, “- I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much i got to thinking maybe we would.”
Friendship VS Isolationism
George: “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family ---- “
“With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.
Lennie broke in “But not us! An’ why? Because… because I gotyou to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why”
Candy: “Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. He was the best damn sheep dog I ever seen.”
Slim: “ Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other”
Crooks: “A guy needs somebody – to be near him. A guys goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody”
1. “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’ in our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.”
Toward the end of Section 1, before George and Lennie reach the
Hopes and Dreams:
“An’ live off the fatta the lan’,” Lennie shouted. “An’ have rabbits”
“We’d jus’ live there. We’d belong there. We’d have our own place where we belonged and not sleep in no bunk house”
They fell into silence. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.
“Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody never gets no land. It just in their head.”
[Crooks] “why I’d come lend a hand”
“Well just forget it,” said crooks. “I didn’t mean it. Just foolin’. Wouldn’ want to go no place like that.”
George said softl, “- I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much i got to thinking maybe we would.”
Friendship VS Isolationism
George: “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family ---- “
“With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.
Lennie broke in “But not us! An’ why? Because… because I gotyou to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why”
Candy: “Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. He was the best damn sheep dog I ever seen.”
Slim: “ Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other”
Crooks: “A guy needs somebody – to be near him. A guys goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody”
1. “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’ in our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.”
Toward the end of Section 1, before George and Lennie reach the