Sinclair Lewis Quotes

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

The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

You have more people that love you than you know.

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.

Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-

I love America, but I don’t like it.

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

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.

Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.