Quotes by Sinclair Lewis

“Well, if thats what you call being at peace, for heavens sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?”

“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”

“When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychology. All those poor devils he'll hide away in institutions, and just bring out the lively young h...”

“Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy e...”

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

“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!”

“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.”

“Theres no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends wholl help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church...”

“I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound." - Carol Kennicott”

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

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

“If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.”

“Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.”

“It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.”

“- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on flowery beds of ease? Think Man was just made to be happy?- Why not? Though I've never discovere...”

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

“So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.”

“NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.”

“Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virt...”

“Well, he'd get help from the Bible. It was all inspired, every word, no matter what scoffers like Jim said. He'd take the first text he turned to and talk on that.He opened on: 'Now THEREFORE, Tatn...”