Quotes from Of Mice and Men with Page Numbers

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. – page 13

If you don’t want me, you only just got to say so, and I’ll go off in those hills right there— – page 56

I done another bad thing. – page 92

I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches with their bundles on their backs an’ that same damn thing in their heads. – page 83

We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. – page 14

I can still tend the rabbits, George? – page 105

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to have let no stranger shoot my dog. – page 60

S’pose they was a carnival or a circus come to town, or a ballgame, or any damn thing. – page 100

Just like heaven. Ever’body wanna be in a nice comfy place like that. – page 73

I ain’t so crippled I can’t work like a son-of-a-bitch if I want to. – page 26

It’s ain’t enough land so we’d have to be all the time tendin’ it. – page 15

I wish I could put you in a cage with about a million mice an’ let you have fun. – page 54

Sure, right now. I gotta. We got a future. – page 59

You hadda, George. I swear you hadda. Come on with me. – page 106

Curley’s gonna want to shoot ‘im. Curley’s still mad about his hand. – page 51

Quotes from Of Mice and Men with Page Numbers part 2

You ain’t gonna leave me, are ya, George? – page 13

I don’t want no fights. – page 27

Well, we ain’t got any, George exploded. – page 15

I told ya, didn’t I? I’ll tell ya again. I said I’m gonna be in the movies. – page 66

I should said to leave me alone, said Candy timidly. – page 91

I seen ’em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. – page 29

Jesus Christ, somebody’d shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself. – page 79

And you won’t let the big guy talk, is that it? – page 31

Curley’s wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. – page 88

A guy can talk to you an’ be sure you won’t go blabbin’. – page 33

You know what I can do to you if you open your trap? – page 32

Nobody’d listen to ya, and you’d be kicked out. – page 31

An’ why? Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you. – page 14

Sometimes I’d like to bust him myself. – page 45

Whatever we ain’t got, that’s what you want. – page 90

Ain’t you gonna give me no more trouble? – page 66

You’re yella as a frog belly. – page 43

I seen ’em tough before, but I ain’t never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. – page 29

His hands were large and pale – page 19

I oughtta of shot that dog myself, George. – page 61

I don’t want no fights. – page 29

She’s gonna make a mess. They ain’t no background to her. – page 28

Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while? – page 43

There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he’s so strong. – page 47

I ought to have shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to have let no stranger shoot my dog. – page 61

I ought to shoot that dog myself, George. – page 45

She was suddenly apprehensive. – page 34

Whatever we ain’t got, that’s what you want. – page 90

George sat entranced with his own picture. – page 25

I shouldn’t ought to let no stranger shoot my dog. – page 33

If I was bright, if I was even a little bit smart, I’d have my own little place, an’ I’d be bringin’ in my own crops, ‘stead of doin’ all the work and not getting what comes up outa the ground. – page 59

We could live offa the fatta the lan’. – page 56

She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. – page 28

I want you to stay with me, Lennie. – page 104

Well, I ain’t giving you no trouble. Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while? – page 88