Sinclair Lewis Quotes

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human b...

Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, ...

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to ...

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going...

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the...

Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of huma...

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has nev...

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particula...

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistf...

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to lo...

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but th...

I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how...

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is bet...

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking i...

- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on...

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd...

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath...

Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, w...

There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place t...

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be dec...

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had ...

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, a...

Well, he'd get help from the Bible. It was all inspired, every word, no matter what scoffers like Ji...

He was afraid that the world struggle today was not of Communism against Fascism, but of tolerance a...

When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychol...

If a queen comes to America, crowds fill the station squares, and attendant British journalists rejo...

And why, she began to ask, did she rage against individuals? Not individuals but institutions are th...

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because th...