Quotes from Sinclair Lewis

No matter even if you are cold, I like you better than anybody in the world. One time I said that you were my soul. And that still goes. You're all the things that I see in a sunset when I'm driving in from the country, the things that I like but can't make poetry of.

But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, 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.

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason

Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut 'Liberty cabbage' and somebody actually proposed calling German measles 'Liberty measles'?

You have more people that love you than you know.

I love America, but I don't like it.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.

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.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.