58 Great Quotes By Sinclair Lewis That Will Keep You Pumped Up
We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
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.
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.
Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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...
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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.
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.
Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?
He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness.
If that woman is on the side of the angels, then I have no choice; I must be on the side of the devil.
He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
Never was a Family more insistent on learning one another’s movements than were the Bunch. All of them volubly knew, or indignantly desired to know, where all the others had been every minute of the week.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
