Top 250 Sinclair Lewis Quotes (2024 Update)
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Sinclair Lewis Quote: “You see, we don’t like murder as a way of argument – that’s what really marks the Liberal!”

251. “You see, we don’t like murder as a way of argument – that’s what really marks the Liberal!”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Why, Windrip’s just something nasty that’s been vomited up. Plenty others still left fermenting in the stomach – quack economists with every sort of economic ptomaine! No, Buzz isn’t important – it’s the sickness that made us throw him up that we’ve got to attend to – the sickness of more than 30 per cent permanently unemployed, and growing larger. Got to cure it!”

252. “Why, Windrip’s just something nasty that’s been vomited up. Plenty others still left fermenting in the stomach – quack economists with every sort of economic ptomaine! No, Buzz isn’t important – it’s the sickness that made us throw him up that we’ve got to attend to – the sickness of more than 30 per cent permanently unemployed, and growing larger. Got to cure it!”

— Sinclair Lewis

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.”

253. “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

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Now you boys never mind about the moral side of this. We have power, and power is its own excuse!”

254. “Now you boys never mind about the moral side of this. We have power, and power is its own excuse!”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “So kindly,” Carol mused, “so well meant, so neighborly – and so confoundedly untrue. Is it really my failure, or theirs?”

255. “So kindly,” Carol mused, “so well meant, so neighborly – and so confoundedly untrue. Is it really my failure, or theirs?”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Why, there’s no country in the world that can get more hysterical – yes, or more obsequious! – than America.”

256. “Why, there’s no country in the world that can get more hysterical – yes, or more obsequious! – than America.”

— Sinclair Lewis

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.”

257. “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

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I don’t mean to say we’re perfect. We’ve got a lot to do in the way of extending the paving of motor boulevards, for, believe me, it’s the fellow with four to ten thousand a year, say, and an automobile and a nice little family in a bungalow on the edge of town, that makes the wheels of progress go round!”

258. “I don’t mean to say we’re perfect. We’ve got a lot to do in the way of extending the paving of motor boulevards, for, believe me, it’s the fellow with four to ten thousand a year, say, and an automobile and a nice little family in a bungalow on the edge of town, that makes the wheels of progress go round!”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “They were shelters for sparrows, not homes for warm laughing people.”

259. “They were shelters for sparrows, not homes for warm laughing people.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “The gospel crew could never consider their converts as human beings, like waiters or manicurists or brakemen, but they had in them such a professional interest as surgeons take in patients, critics in an author, fishermen in trout.”

260. “The gospel crew could never consider their converts as human beings, like waiters or manicurists or brakemen, but they had in them such a professional interest as surgeons take in patients, critics in an author, fishermen in trout.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “We cannot too strongly condemn the un-Christian attitude of certain otherwise progressive nations in their discriminations against the Jews, who have been among the strongest supporters of the League, and who will continue to prosper and to be recognized as fully Americanized, though only so long as they continue to support our ideals.”

261. “We cannot too strongly condemn the un-Christian attitude of certain otherwise progressive nations in their discriminations against the Jews, who have been among the strongest supporters of the League, and who will continue to prosper and to be recognized as fully Americanized, though only so long as they continue to support our ideals.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Lewis was an extremely cold, stern, and business-minded man.”

262. “Lewis was an extremely cold, stern, and business-minded man.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Is it just possible,′ he sighed, ’that the most vigorous and obldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?”

263. “Is it just possible,′ he sighed, ’that the most vigorous and obldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.”

264. “All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “No! What I’d really like us to do would be to come out and tell the whole world: ‘Now you boys never mind about the moral side of this. We have power, and power is its own excuse!”

265. “No! What I’d really like us to do would be to come out and tell the whole world: ‘Now you boys never mind about the moral side of this. We have power, and power is its own excuse!”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “For the first time in America, except during the Civil War and the World War, people were afraid to say whatever came to their tongues.”

266. “For the first time in America, except during the Civil War and the World War, people were afraid to say whatever came to their tongues.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “To be “intellectual” or “artistic” or, in their own word, to be “highbrow,” is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.”

267. “To be “intellectual” or “artistic” or, in their own word, to be “highbrow,” is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.”

— Sinclair Lewis

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.”

268. “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.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Carol was dismayed to find the Christian religion, in America, in the twentieth century, as abnormal as Zoroastrianism – without the splendor.”

269. “Carol was dismayed to find the Christian religion, in America, in the twentieth century, as abnormal as Zoroastrianism – without the splendor.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I shall not be content till this country can produce every single thing we need, even coffee, cocoa, and rubber, and so keep all our dollars at home. If.”

270. “I shall not be content till this country can produce every single thing we need, even coffee, cocoa, and rubber, and so keep all our dollars at home. If.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Doremus understood John Brown much better.”

271. “Doremus understood John Brown much better.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Manhattan peasants. Kind people, industrious people, generous to their aged, eager to find any desperate cure for the sickness of worry over losing the job. Most facile material for any rabble-rouser.”

272. “Manhattan peasants. Kind people, industrious people, generous to their aged, eager to find any desperate cure for the sickness of worry over losing the job. Most facile material for any rabble-rouser.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “They had something to do. They could escape from themselves.”

273. “They had something to do. They could escape from themselves.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “He was in that most blissful condition to which a powerful young man can attain – unrighteous violence in a righteous cause.”

274. “He was in that most blissful condition to which a powerful young man can attain – unrighteous violence in a righteous cause.”

— Sinclair Lewis

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