You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhy is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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.
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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.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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