John Steinbeck Quotes About Angels

Quotes about: Angels

• [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Angel, Son, Men

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.9, Penguin

• Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our own hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, Fall, Angel

• It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

  John Steinbeck

  Angel, Eden, Devil

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin

• It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.

  John Steinbeck

  Angel, White, Snow

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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