Sinclair Lewis

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

— Sinclair Lewis

“He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness.”

— Sinclair Lewis

“government of the profits, by the profits, for the profits.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

— Sinclair Lewis

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

— Sinclair Lewis

People read fiction for emotion-not information

— Sinclair Lewis

You have more people that love you than you know.

— Sinclair Lewis

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is…"

— Sinclair Lewis

“She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull,”

— Sinclair Lewis

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

— Sinclair Lewis

“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

— Sinclair Lewis

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

— Sinclair Lewis

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

— Sinclair Lewis

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

— Sinclair Lewis

“Author sees the "congested idealism" of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Gosh all fishhooks!" Ted wailed to Eunice, as they wolfed hot chocolate, lumps of nougat, and an assortment of glace nuts, in…

— Sinclair Lewis

“His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither…

— Sinclair Lewis

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another…

— Sinclair Lewis

Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate…

— Sinclair Lewis

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the…

— Sinclair Lewis

I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the…

— Sinclair Lewis

“For many minutes, for many hours, for a bleak eternity, he lay awake, shivering, reduced to primitive terror, comprehending that he had…

— Sinclair Lewis

If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets,…

— Sinclair Lewis

My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too -…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its…

— Sinclair Lewis

What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again…

— Sinclair Lewis

“My dear man, there's nothing I'd like better than to be by myself occasionally... I suppose you expect me to sit here…

— Sinclair Lewis

“She had become so dully habituated to married life that in her full matronliness she was as sexless as an anemic nun.…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Most of them had, among all the factors in the campaign, noticed only what they regarded as Windrip’s humor, and three planks…

— Sinclair Lewis

“I don't mean to say we're perfect. We've got a lot to do in the way of extending the paving of motor…

— Sinclair Lewis

“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?'…

— Sinclair Lewis

“As to industrial conditions, however, Babbitt had thought a great deal, and his opinions may be coordinated as follows: "A good labor…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Why, there’s no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute…

— Sinclair Lewis

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on…

— Sinclair Lewis

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

— Sinclair Lewis

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

— Sinclair Lewis

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

— Sinclair Lewis

“Your lips are for songs about rivers in the morning and lakes at twilight.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

— Sinclair Lewis