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List of Sinclair Lewis Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 102 inspiring quotes by Sinclair Lewis.

About Sinclair Lewis

  • Born: February 7, 1885
  • Died: January 10, 1951
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.
    Cost Facts Prohibition
    If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. to live in carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at san remo healing to the soul, but to get from carlsbad to san remo is of the devil.
    Lying Healing Fighting
    There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.
    Conversation
    Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
    Thinking Criticize Conventional
    Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?
    Travel Thinking Citizens
    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.
    Sex Clerks Twenties
    Winter is not a season in the north middlewest; it is an industry.
    Winter Seasons Industry
    There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of james joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
    Insane Dozen Dull
    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.
    Fog Gossip Cynical
    That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
    Men Numbers Really Great
    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.
    Country Art Literature
    He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
    People Misanthropy Persons
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