Sinclair Lewis Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.
He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason
I wouldn't care whether it was a laboratory or a carnival. But it's merely safe. Tell me, Mr. Pollock, what is the matter with Gopher Prairie?
Life is comfortable and clean enough here already. And so secure. What it needs it to be less secure, more eager.
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is ... "
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth ...
If that woman is on the side of the angels, then I have no choice; I must be on the side of the devil.
His name was George F. Babbitt, and ... he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
and after saying good-by to him at the station, Babbitt returned to his office to realize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless.
Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut 'Liberty cabbage' and somebody actually proposed calling German measles 'Liberty measles'?
We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
Well, if that's what you call being at peace, for heaven's sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?
The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.
Why, America's the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country's too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn't happen here!
Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria.
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
freedom of speech becomes mere license when it goes so far as to criticize the Army, differ with the D.A.R., and advocate the rights of the Mob.
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.
In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.
Of the love-making of Carol and Will Kennicott there is nothing to be told which may not be heard on every summer evening, on every shadowy block.
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!
To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.
He believed that the earth is flat, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a democracy.