You have more people that love you than you know.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
-
-
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
I’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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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!
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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 -
Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
SINCLAIR LEWIS