Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISI’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
-
-
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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 LEWIS -
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
You have more people that love you than you know.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWIS






