Of Mice and Men Quotes

George

• we travel together
• lonely men get mean
• i could live so easy
• barley bucker
• i think Curley's married a tart
• He better not fool with Lennie
• He never done this to be mean

• *********
• crazy bastaard

Lennie

• barley bucker
• dum-dum
• aint a bit mean
• i get to tend the rabbits
• jus' scairt
• i like to pet nice things
• aint nobody goin to suppose no hurt to george
• crazy *******

Candy

• swamper
• lousy ol' sheep
• when they can me i wisht somebody'd shoot me
• i aint much good with on'y one hand
• gut ache
• i wont have no place to go
• we got frens that what we got
• you god damn tramp
• i ought to have shot that dog myself
• three hundred an' fifty bucks id put in
• i could cook and tend the chickens

Curley

• you seen a girl around here?
• he's alla time picking scraps
• sounds like a son-of-a-*****
• little
• handy
• he hates big guys
• glove fulla vaseline
• he aint a nice fella

Curley's Wife

• purty
• lips rouged
• sausage curls
• think i dont like to talk to somebody ever
• i get awful lonely
• jail bat
• sweet and young
• heavily made up
• fingernails were red
• coulda been in the movies
• whats the matter with me?
• tart
• she got the eye goin'

Crooks

• stable buck
• if i say something, why its just a ****** saying it
• a guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody
• little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn
• proud,aloof man
• i aint wanted in the bunkhouse and you aint wanted in my room
• i could get you strung up so easy it aint even funny
• nobody ever gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land
• a guy needs somebody near him
• lighted with pleasure in his torture

Slim

• jerkline skinner
• tall man. crushed stetson hat
• prince of the ranch
• all talk stopped when he spoke
• his word was taken on any subject
• you hadda George
• calm, godlike eyes
• authority
• drowned four