My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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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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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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