A selection of Quotes from Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. As part of our FREE GCSE English Literature exam help  for 12 key GCSE texts.

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Of Mice and Men: George to Lenny Chapter 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.”

Of Mice and Men: George  in Chapter 1

“Whatever we ain’t got, that’s what you want. God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want.”

Of Mice and Men: Lennie in Chapter 3

“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.”

Of Mice and Men: Crooks in Chapter Chapter 4

“S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunk house and play rummy ’cause you was black. How’d you like that? S’pose you had to sit out here an’ read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain’t no good. A guy needs somebody – to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.”

Of Mice and Men: Slim in Chapter 6

“Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes.”

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