Quotes by Sinclair Lewis

About Sinclair Lewis:

Harry Sinclair Lewis is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H.L. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds."
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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.

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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, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and y...

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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.

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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.

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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.

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There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

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You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General—just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns—'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps—just maybe—when a country has gon...

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The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a cou...

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He was in stature but a small man, yet remember that so were Napoleon, Lord Beaverbrook, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick the Great, and the Dr. Goebbels who is privily known throughout Germany as "Wotan's Mickey Mouse.

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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.

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

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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

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Author Bio

  • NameSinclair Lewis
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
  • BornMay 7, 1885
  • DiedJanuary 10, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Playwright; Writer
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Prometheus Award - Hall Of Fame