Quotes About Sinclair Lewis

Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.

If that woman is on the side of the angels, then I have no choice; I must be on the side of the devil.

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

Author sees the congested idealism of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.

The Wonderlust--probably it's a worse affliction than the Wanderlust.

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria.

On the walk, like shredded lovely flesh, were the petals of the last gallant rose.

He was afraid that the world struggle today was not of Communism against Fascism, but of tolerance against the bigotry that was preached equally by Communism and Fascism. But

Jessup was a littlish man, skinny, smiling, well tanned, with a small gray mustache, a small and well-trimmed gray beard—in a community where to sport a beard was to confess one's self a farmer, a Civil War veteran, or a Seventh Day Adventist. Doremus's detractors said that he maintained the beard just to be "highbrow" and "different," to try to appear "artistic." Possibly they were right.

Elmer Gantry never knew who set him thirty dimes, wrapped in a tract about holiness, nor why. But he found the sentiments in the tract useful in his sermon, and the thirty dimes he spent for lovely photographs of burlesque ladies.

Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.

Women, she pointed out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in 1919 she could have saved them all this trouble. No. Certainly not. No votes.

Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch

Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota.

Don't be scared of upsetting folks 'coz most of 'em are topsy-turvy anyway, and you'll only be putting 'em back on their feet.

This was infuriating, because none of their rights as American citizens was better established, or more often used, than the privilege of being ill.

He had never found that more than five whiskeys and soda were beneficial to law-practice.

And you want to 'reform' people like that when dynamite is so cheap?

Maud's manner indicated that the falsity of the story was an insignificant flaw in its general delightfulness.

three gift copies of The Perennial Bachelor

Here a few weeks back, when we were in Vienna, I picked up 'Martin Chuzzlewit' and waded through it. Funny, mind you, his picture of America a hundred years ago. But he shows a bunch of people along the Ohio River and in New York who were too lazy to scratch, who--

They were obsessed by the gaffer in Terra Haute who got converted every single night in the meetings. He may have been insane and he may have been a plain drunk.

Do you suppose it's dangerous? she asked her father, who said a lot of comforting things that didn't mean anything.

I am reluctantly considering the Academy (American Academy of Arts and Letters) because it is so perfect an example of the divorce in America of intellectual life from all authentic standards of importance and reality.