His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
-
-
You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
People read fiction for emotion-not information
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
You have more people that love you than you know.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
SINCLAIR LEWIS






