Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
—Sinclair Lewis
Topics: Courage, Bravery
There are two insults no human will endure: the assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
—Sinclair Lewis
Topics: Critics, Criticism
People will buy anything that is ‘one to a customer.’
—Sinclair Lewis
Topics: Business, Customers
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
Topics: Travel
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
—Sinclair Lewis
Topics: Love
There are two insults no human will endure: the assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
—Sinclair Lewis
Topics: Insults
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
—Sinclair Lewis
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
—Sinclair Lewis
Topics: Management
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
—Sinclair Lewis
Topics: Advertising
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
—Sinclair Lewis
Topics: Patriotism
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is…”
—Sinclair Lewis
Topics: America
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
Topics: Artists, Art, Arts
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.
—Sinclair Lewis
It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
—Sinclair Lewis
Topics: Writing
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
—Sinclair Lewis
Topics: Books, Literature
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Raymond Chandler American Novelist
- William Saroyan American Playwright, Novelist
- Don DeLillo American Author
- Joseph Heller American Novelist
- Edgar Lee Masters American Poet, Novelist
- Truman Capote American Novelist
- Ben Hecht American Screenwriter
- Robert A. Heinlein American Science Fiction Writer
- William Goldman Hollywood Screenwriter
- John Neal American Author, Critic
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