Writer Quotes by Sinclair Lewis

“She found beauty in the children.”

— 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 the dark…

— Sinclair Lewis

When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and…

— Sinclair Lewis

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

— Sinclair Lewis

“He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists…

— Sinclair Lewis

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

— 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 thousand years?

— Sinclair Lewis

“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to…

— Sinclair Lewis

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

— 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

“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,”

— Sinclair Lewis

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

— Sinclair Lewis

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

— Sinclair Lewis

“The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better…

— Sinclair Lewis