| “What mouse, George? I ain’t got no mouse.” | Lennie |
| “God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble.” | George |
| “I was jus’ foolin’, Lennie. ‘Cause I want you to stay with me.” | George |
| “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.” | George |
| “Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys.” | Candy |
| “Don’t you even take a look at that b—-… I seen ’em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be.” | George |
| “You give me a good wh-re house every time. A guy can… get ever’thing outa his system all at once, an’ no messes.” | George |
| “The cream is so God d-mn thick you got to cut it with a knife and take it out with a spoon.” | George |
| “You seen what they done to my dog tonight? … When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me.” | Candy |
| “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.” | Candy |
| “S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ’cause you was black… A guy needs somebody to be near him.” | Crooks |
| “Guys don’t come into a coloured man’s room very much.” | Crooks |
| “Jesus, I seen it happen too many times. I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.” | Crooks |
| “Whatta ya think I am, a kid? I tell ya I could of went with shows.” | Curley’s Wife |
| “I’m glad you bust up Curley a little bit. He got it comin’ to him. Sometimes I’d like to bust him myself.” | Curley’s Wife |
| “I get lonely… You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody?” | Curley’s Wife |
| “I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing.” | Lennie |
| “I think I knowed from the very first. I think I know’d we’d never do her. He just liked to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would.” | George |
| “All the time he [Lennie] done bad things, but he never done one of ’em mean.” | George |
| “I’m gonna shoot the guts outta that big b-stard myself, even if I only got one hand. I’m gonna get ‘im.” | Curley |
| “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda. Come on with me.” | Slim |
| “No, Lennie. Look down there acrost the river, like you can almost see the place.” | George |
Of Mice and Men Quotes Quiz
April 29, 2020