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Top 250 Sinclair Lewis Quotes (2024 Update)
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Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Blessed be they who are not Patriots and Idealists, and who do not feel they must dash right in and Do Something About It, something so immediately important that all doubters must be liquidated – tortured – slaughtered! Good old murder, that since the slaying of Abel by Cain has always been the new device by which all oligarchies and dictators have, for all future ages to come, removed opposition!”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, “My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Babbitt knew that in this place of death Paul was already dead. And as he pondered on the train home something in his own self seemed to have died: a loyal and vigorous faith in the goodness of the world, a fear of public disfavor, a pride in success.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Eddie Fislinger’s church was an octagonal affair, with the pulpit in one angle, an arrangement which produced a fascinating, rather dizzy effect, reminiscent of the doctrine of predestination.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Why, she said, with a smile which snapped back after using as abruptly as a stretched rubber band, didn’t he take a nice walk?”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “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.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “The shame of emotion overpowered them; they cursed a little, to prove they were good rough fellows; and in a mellow silence, Babbitt whistling while Paul hummed, they paddled back to the hotel.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Of the love-making of Carol and Will Kennicott there is nothing to be told which may not be heard on every summer evening, on every shadowy block.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Reek took not more than an hour to relate what would’ve taken the most intelligent man five or six hours – that is, five minutes of speech and the rest of the five hours to recover from the nausea caused by having to utter such shameless rot...”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “But it was indecent, it was sacrilegious to annoy an emperor, and in his irritation he had an ex-Senator and twelve workmen who were in concentration camps taken out and shot on the charge that they had told irreverent stories about him.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “She watched the hulk of marriage drifting down on her frail speed-boat of aspiration, and steered in desperate circles.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Going seventy miles an hour but not going anywhere – not enough imagination to want to go anywhere! Getting their music by turning a dial. Getting their phrases from the comic strips instead of from Shakespeare and the Bible and Veblen and Old Bill Sumner. Pap-fed flabs!”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “On the walk, like shredded lovely flesh, were the petals of the last gallant rose.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “It was not an esthetic room. Though Frank Shallard might have come to admire pictures, great music, civilized furniture, he had been trained to regard them as worldly, and to content himself with art which ‘presented a message,’ to regard ‘Les Miserables’ as superior because the bishop was a kind man, and ‘The Scarlet Letter’ as a poor book because the heroine was sinful and the author didn’t mind.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “She had become so dully habituated to married life that in her full matronliness she was as sexless as an anemic nun. She was a good woman, a kind woman, a diligent woman, but no one, save perhaps Tinka her ten-year-old, was at all interested in her or entirely aware that she was alive.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “The Wonderlust – probably it’s a worse affliction than the Wanderlust.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Sandy, you have to stumble every so often; have to learn by making mistakes.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “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 Quote: “It keeps strays in the flock. To word it differently: ‘You must live up to the popular code if you believe in it; but if you don’t believe in it, then you MUST live up to it!”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “He had learned how to assemble Jewish texts, Greek philosophy, and Middle-Western evangelistic anecdotes into a sermon. And he had learned that poverty was blessed, but that bankers make the best deacons.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “And for all her theoretical desire to make their house a refuge for him and for whomever he liked to invite, she had never learned to keep her opinions of people to herself. When she was bored by callers, she would beg “Do you mind if I run up to bed now – such a headache,” with a bright friendliness which fooled no one save herself, and which left their guests chilled and awkward.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Street, and she was able to give Elmer the three hundred.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Morning always promises miracles.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I’m not sure that I shall. I’m trying to develop my own large capacity for dullness and contentment. I’ve failed at every positive thing I’ve tried. I’d better ‘settle down,’ as they call it, and be satisfied to be – nothing.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “America, like England and Scotland, had never really been a gay nation. Rather it had been heavily and noisily jocular, with a substratum of worry and insecurity, in the image of its patron saint, Lincoln of the rollicking stories and the tragic heart.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “We don’t want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Life is comfortable and clean enough here already. And so secure. What it needs it to be less secure, more eager.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “The author says one character’s definition of a classic is any book he’d heard of before he was thirty.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “There was nothing to say to tragedy that had outlived hope.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement-house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a horde of grateful poor.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Not individuals but institutions are the enemies, and they most afflict the disciples who the most generously serve them. They insinuate their tyranny under a hundred guises and pompous names, such as Polite Society, the Family, the Church, Sound Business, the Party, the Country, the Superior White Race; and the only defense against them, Carol beheld, was unembittered laughter.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Honestly, I think that the sense of humor of the people that TALK about having a ‘sense of humor’ is a worse vice than drinking.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “What conceivable reason could one have for seeking after righteousness in a world which so hated righteousness?”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Those of you who have listened to me before will understand that I – or rather that the League of Forgotten Men – has no quarrel with individual Jews; that we are proud to have Rabbis among our directors; but those subversive international organizations which, unfortunately, are so largely Jewish, must be driven with whips and scorpions from off the face of the earth.”
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