Quote by Sinclair Lewis Download Open image ““Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.”” — Sinclair Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented… — Donal Ryan Copy Share Image
“He wasn't drunk on liquor, just drunk on what he liked - crowds of people milling.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.” — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“He was drunk, but this was something he’d thought about for a long time and needed no sobriety to express—just a listener.” — Olen Steinhauer Copy Share Image
“He wasn't a happy drunk and when he'd had too much, his frustration spilled out of him in an angry torrent of false bravado.… — Ed Duncan Copy Share Image
“Jimmy decided to get drunk—not just drunk enough to enjoy life (here he grinned, and Cecily smiled back), not just drunk enough to fuck… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“it made one drunk with delight to look upon it.” — Mark Twain Following the Equator Copy Share Image
“Damn, he was bored. It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.” — Filippo Bologna Copy Share Image
“I wondered if he was drunk. That's when I tended to speak profundities to the night.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
