List of Sinclair Lewis Quotes

In Fact, The Whole Thing About Prohibition Is This: It Isn't The Initial Cost, It's The Humidity.

If There Is Anything Worse Than The Aching Tedium Of Staring Out Of Car Windows, It Is The Irritation Of Getting Tickets, Packing, Finding Trains, Lying In Bouncing Berths, Washing Without Water, Digging Out Passports, And Fighting Through Customs. To Live In Carlsbad Is Seemly And To Loaf At San Remo Healing To The Soul, But To Get From Carlsbad To San Remo Is Of The Devil.

There Was Much Conversation, Most Of Which Sounded Like The Rest Of It.

Think How Much Better It Is To Criticize Conventional Customs If You Yourself Live Up To Them, Scrupulously.

Do You Think It's So Snobbish, To Want To See Something Besides One's Fellow Citizens Abroad?

The Greatest Mystery About A Human Being Is Not His Reaction To Sex Or Praise, But The Manner In Which He Contrives To Put In Twenty-four Hours A Day. It Is This Which Puzzles The Longshoreman About The Clerk, The Londoner About The Bushman.

Winter Is Not A Season In The North Middlewest; It Is An Industry.

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.

Unhappy Women Are Given To Protecting Their Sensitiveness By Cynical Gossip, By Whining, By High-church And New-thought Religions, Or By A Fog Of Vagueness.

That Nation Is Proudest And Noblest And Most Exalted Which Has The Greatest Number Of Really Great Men.

I Have For Myself No Conceivable Complaint To Make, And Yet For American Literature In General, And Its Standing In A Country Where Industrialism And Finance And Science Flourish And The Only Arts That Are Vital And Respected Are Architecture And The Film, I Have A Considerable Complaint.

He Loved The People Just As Much As He Feared And Detested Persons.