Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
SINCLAIR LEWISif men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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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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