He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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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