Quotes from book
The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare's Richard III: "Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York".
“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
Context: Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich?' But I did not say to her what I know: 'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly.' And that is true. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“To be alive at all is to have scars.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter VI
“Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter III
“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over…”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
