"You're so earnest about morality that I hate……" — Sinclair Lewis
"You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath."
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61 Quotes by Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis has 61 quotes on this site.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth…
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's…
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to…
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If…
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest…
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she…
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation…
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the…
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More Earnest Quotes
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their…
— Walter Bagehot
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your…
— Dave Barry
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It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
— Kim Cattrall
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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
— Winston Churchill
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then…
— Jean Anouilh
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found…
— John Lancaster Spalding
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Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are…
— Charles Spurgeon
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