Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
– Sinclair Lewis
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
– Sinclair Lewis
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
– Sinclair Lewis
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
– Sinclair Lewis
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
– Sinclair Lewis
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
– Sinclair Lewis
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
– Sinclair Lewis
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is...
– Sinclair Lewis
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.
– Sinclair Lewis
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
– Sinclair Lewis
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
– Sinclair Lewis
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.
– Sinclair Lewis
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
– Sinclair Lewis
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.