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Top 250 Sinclair Lewis Quotes (2024 Update)
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Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “What an eternal art it is – such a glittery delightful art – finding hard names for our opponents! How we do sanctify our efforts to keep them from getting the holy dollars we want for ourselves!”
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: “I wouldn’t care whether it was a laboratory or a carnival. But it’s merely safe. Tell me, Mr. Pollock, what is the matter with Gopher Prairie?”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “When Buzz gets in, he won’t be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That’ll be bad Fascist psychology. All those poor devils he’ll hide away in institutions, and just bring out the lively young human slaughter cattle in uniforms.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Always she had a genius for keeping herself superior to him by just the right comment on his clumsiness, the most delicate and needle- pointed comparison of him with defter men.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on ‘Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt’ had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Albert Einstein, who had been exiled from Germany for his guilty devotion to mathematics, world peace, and the violin, was now exiled from America for the same crimes.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “It was a town of perhaps ten thousand souls, inhabiting about twenty thousand bodies – the proportion of soul-possession may be too high.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Certainly Lewis failed – or refused – to sketch a solution to the threat of fascism. He was a social satirist, not a systematic political thinker or theorist. Worth.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Say, I swear the best Messiah in the whole show is this darky, Father Divine.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “The hysteria can’t last; be patient, and wait and see, he counseled his readers. It was not that he was afraid of the authorities. He simply did not believe that this comic tyranny could endure. It can’t happen here, said even Doremus – even now.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “After his remarks upon suffrage he abruptly questioned her about herself. His kindliness and the firmness of his personality enveloped her and she accepted him as one who had a right to know what she thought and wore and ate and read. He was positive. He had grown from a sketched-in stranger to a friend, whose gossip was important news. She noticed the healthy solidity of his chest. His nose, which had seemed irregular and large, was suddenly virile.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “He was not only 100 per cent American; he exacted 40 per cent of chauvinistic interest on top of the principal. He was on every occasion heard to say, “We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an industrious shooting of revolvers; and funny fat men who ate spaghetti.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Authors have the power to bore people long after we are dead. –.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera – or war or fiction.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Humor is next to Godliness.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “He was permitted, without restriction, to speak of himself as immoral, agnostic and socialistic, so long as it was universally known that he remained pure, Presbyterian, and Republican.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Pictures? Why talk stupidly about pictures when he could talk intelligently about engines? Languages? If he had nothing to say, what was the good of saying it in three languages? Manners? These presumable dukes and dignitaries whom he was passing on Pall Mall might be able to enter a throne-room more loftily, but he didn’t want to enter a throne-room.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “He regarded spats, walking sticks, caviar, titles, tea-drinking, poetry not daily syndicated in newspapers, and all foreigners, possibly excepting the British, as degenerate.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Jessup was a littlish man, skinny, smiling, well tanned, with a small gray mustache, a small and well-trimmed gray beard – in a community where to sport a beard was to confess one’s self a farmer, a Civil War veteran, or a Seventh Day Adventist. Doremus’s detractors said that he maintained the beard just to be “highbrow” and “different,” to try to appear “artistic.” Possibly they were right.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “In some respects, writing was his only form of human interaction.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don’t know, they don’t understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound.” – Carol Kennicott.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “You poor kids! You talking children, that don’t know anything about anything that matters! Don’t you see? I can’t play either of your games. I’m ME! I’m going to be me! Oh, if you do love me a little, let me be me! Good-by.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “West of Chicago, “You bet” means “Rather,” and “Yes indeed,” and “On the whole I should be inclined to fancy that there may be some vestiges of accuracy in your curious opinion,” and “You’re a liar but I can’t afford to say so.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “As a newspaper man, Doremus remembered that the only reporters who misrepresented and concealed facts more unscrupulously than the Capitalists were the Communists.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Foolish was a reliable combination of English setter, Airedale, cocker spaniel, wistful doe, and rearing hyena.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I decided to leave here. Stern resolution. Grasp the world. Then I found that the Village Virus had me, absolute.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Father, thou hast forgiven too long. Forgive them not, but curse them, for they know what they do.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I pledge myself to serve the Corporate State, the Chief, all Commissioners, the Mystic Wheel, and the troops of the Republic in every thought and deed.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “God, sir, men’s souls and blood are not eggshells for tyrants to break!”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “As she went dragging through the prickly-hot street she reflected that a citizen of Gopher Prairie does not have jests-he has a jest.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “What conceivable reason could one have for seeking after righteousness in a world which so hated righteousness? Why do anything except eat and read and make love and provide for sleep that should be secure against disturbance by armed policemen? He never did find any particularly good reason. He simply went on.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Except, perhaps, that he was an atheist in theology, he was a strict orthodox Christian.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Once upon a time in America there was a scholar who conducted a one-man revolution and won it. There.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it’s less vigorous, but that it is not needed by youth; that its love and prosy sageness, so important a few years ago, so gladly offered now, are rejected with laughter.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Why, there’s no country in the world that can get more hysterical – yes, or more obsequious! – than America.”
Sinclair Lewis Quote: “He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new day.”
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